Texas Co. v. Harrison

This is an appeal from a judgment obtained by defendant in error, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, against plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, for damages for alleged permanent injury to plaintiff’s land claimed to have been caused by surface and subsurface pollution from salt water permitted to escape from oil wells operated by defendant.

Plaintiff, since some time prior to 1928, was the owner of 320 acres of land in Osage county. Defendant operated a number of oil wells, some of which were on land owned by plaintiff. But most of the wells were located on lands…