Roxana Petroleum Corp. v. Dormire

This action was commenced in the district court of Noble county by Emma E. Dormiré, as plaintiff, against Roxana Petroleum Corporation, Sinclair Oil & Gas Company, and Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation, foreign corporations, and O. G. Smith, Ted Hoss, and John Hepler, local residents, as defendants, seeking recovery of damages to a certain tract of land situated in Noble county, alleged to have accrued to plaintiff by reason of the negligent operation of certain oil and gas wells by the defendants, whereby salt water and other deleterious substances had permia-nently polluted and destroyed…