Comar Oil Co. v. Sipe

MASON, V. C. J.

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court, inverse to their order here.

Prior to the filing of the instant action, the plaintiff, Sipe, and others recovered joint and several judgments in th'e district court of Nobie county against the Comar 0:1 Company, defendant herein, and nine other oil companies for $18,500, growing out of the pollution of Bird’s Nest creek, which flows through th'e Tonkawa oil fields, and through the farms of said parties. Bird’s Nest creek flows through the northeast corner of the 160-acre farm of Sipe, and his recovery therein…