GINTHER v. Long

The appellee sued the appellants for damages to his land and the timber thereon resulting from the alleged wrongful act of the appellants in willfully causing or permitting deleterious effluents, consisting of salt water and oil, to flow upon said land from a producing oil well of the appellants located on adjacent land.

The appellee sought the recovery of claimed damages to his land, the actual value of trees thereon alleged to have been destroyed, and the statutory penalty prescribed in Section 1075 of the Mississippi Code of 1942, as amended, for the willful or reckless cutting or…