Akers v. Ashland Oil & Refining Co.

Browning, Judge:

This is an action of trespass on the case in which Hobart Akers sought to recover from the Ashland Oil & Refining Company damages for alleged injury to approximately twenty-six acres of his farm land, as the result of oil from the defendant’s plant being deposited on his land by a flooding of the Big Sandy River, which separates the plaintiff’s farm from the defendant’s plant. Upon a plea of the general issue, the case was tried to a jury, and a verdict returned in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $4,125.00. A motion by the defendant to set aside the verdict of the jury…