East Texas Oil Refining Co. v. Mabee Consolidated Corp.

WILLIAMS, Justice.

A pipe line constructed, owned, and operated by appellant • was dynamited by some person unknown to appellant or ap-pellee, and by one not in any wise associated or connected with them. This explosion which occurred around 11 a. m. caused a break in the pipe line, which resulted in some 1,700 barrels of East Texas crude oil flowing out of the break on to the ground and into a creek at a point about a mile from appellee’s drilling rig, floating down the creek to, under, and around this rig. Around 6 p. m. of the same day this oil which had so escaped became ignited, and the'…