Humble Pipe Line Company v. Anderson

TIREY, Justice.

This is a suit for injuries to land alleged to have resulted from the pollution of a water well by crude oil. Appellees specifically alleged that the oil came from a leak in defendant’s pipe line, and that the oil penetrated the soil and the water bearing formation of appellees’ land. Originally two separate suits were filed, and they were consolidated by order of the court prior to trial because there was only one water well involved, it being a boundary line well in which the appellees owned equal rights. The well in question is a shallow, hand-dug well approximately 18 feet…