H. F. Wilcox Oil & Gas Co. v. Johnson

This action was commenced by defendant in error, herein referred to as plaintiff, against the H. F. Wilcox Oil & Gas Company and some 14 other oil companies to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the pollution of a stream running through plaintiff’s land, and the overflow of said stream by which oil, salt water, and sediment, the polluting substances, were deposited upon plaintiff’s land.

Plaintiff’s petition alleged that said stream had been polluted by defendants since about 1922, or 1923, and alleged that the pollution of the stream itself had affected the value of the land. But…