Gartner v. Williams Oil & Gas Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This was an action by George Gartner to recover damages from the Williams Oil and Gas Company for allowing oil, salt and mineral waters and other deleterious liquids to escape from operated oil wells into the pasture of plaintiff, which adjoined the oil lease and which it was alleged polluted the springs and pools of water in the pasture, with the result that it impaired *200the digestion of plaintiff’s live stock in the pasture, causing them to become ill and some of them to die, making it necessary for plaintiff to cease the use of his…