Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. v. Giles

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Stanolind Oil & Gas Company has appealed from a judgment rendered against it in favor of J. M. Giles for the destruction of Giles’ water well. Trial was to the court without a jury, and the Court stated its findings of fact in a brief oral opinion as follows:

“I find, gentlemen, as facts, that the plaintiff had a satisfactory well of water, which had served his six-hundred- and-some-odd acre farm for a great many years, for stock water, for water in his home, and for irrigation purposes.

“That in the year 1949, while that was the situation, the defendant set off an…