Cosden Oil Co. v. Sides

Cosden Oil Company was defendant below, and this appeal is from a judgment against it in favor of Lillie Opal Sides and her husband for damages in the sum of $1,-112.50 for injury to a certain 52-acre tract of land and growing grass thereon, alleged to have resulted from “oils, oil waste and oil products” being permitted to flow upon same. The case was tried with a jury, to whom was submitted special issues, of which one, with the answer thereto, was as follows:

“If you answer Special Issue No. 2 in the affirmative, or ‘yes,’ then answer in dollars and cents the following special issue:

“Special…