Skelly Oil Co. v. Johnson

This is an action to recover damages to growing crops allegedly caused by oil and salt water flowing from defendants’ leases and deposited on plaintiff’s farm by flood waters of a stream. Verdict and judgment were for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.

The facts here are very similar to those disclosed in Continental Oil Co. v. Tigner, 189 Okla. 619, 118 P. 2d 1027. The record here is much like the record in that case, and the assignments are the same. After examining the record, we find that the cause must be reversed for a new trial for the same reasons as there given.

Over defendants’…