W. Oil Fields Corporation v. Nowlin

This suit was instituted by appellee against appellant, seeking to recover damages which he claimed to have suffered by reason of appellant having permitted crude petroleum, salt water, and other deleterious substances to escape from oil wells which it was operating on the watershed of Jack’s creek and Navasota river, which ap-pellee claims destroyed his crops of corn and cotton on 65 acres of land which he was cultivating on the third and fourth for the year 1924. The'cause was tried to a jury, submitted on special issues, and resulted in a judgment being rendered for appellee for 8225.

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