Central Petroleum Co. v. Lewis

Opinion by

PINKHAM, 0.

This was an action commenced in the county court of Washington county by defendant in error against the Meridian Petroleum Corporation, Central Petroleum Company, a corporation, and the Continental Oil Company, a corporation, for damages to cattle, mules, and poultry, alleged to have been caused by the negligent acts of the defendants in permitting oil and salt water to escape from their wells and to flow into the stream which runs through the premises of the plaintiff. Plaintiff alleges in his petition that by reason of these acts of the defendants he has been damaged by…