United Fuel Gas Co. v. Sawyers

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The judgment is for $400 damages for the contamination of a water, well charged to have been caused by a' nearby gas well. We sustain the motion for an appeal.

In building a home at a considerable cost near Pikeville in 1941, the appellee, Edgar Sawyers, drilled a well 69 feet deep, only one foot of which was in rock, and obtained a supply of good water. The depth was reached in three days of drilling. The well was stopped at that point because other wells in the neighborhood drilled deeper into the rock had been getting sulphur water. ' It was cased with metal,…