SHELL OIL COMPANY v. Ainsworth

247 So.2d 815 (1971)

SHELL OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation

v.

Oree AINSWORTH et ux.

No. 46119.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 10, 1971.

Gibbes & Graves, Laurel, Marvin Oates, Bay Springs, for appellant.

J.E. Ulmer, Jr., Bay Springs, for appellees.

INZER, Justice:

Appellees, Oree Ainsworth and his wife, Elline Ainsworth, brought suit in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jasper County against appellant, Shell Oil Company, seeking to recover damages for the killing of the fish and damage to a pond on their premises. The declaration alleged that the appellees were the owners of…