Danciger Oil & Refining Co. v. Donahey

In this case Clark Don-ahey recovered a money judgment against the Danciger Oil & Refining Company as damages to his land and to a water well located thereon. The parties here will be referred to as plaintiff and defendant as their relation appeared in the trial court.

Plaintiff is the owner of an 80-acre tract of land in Noble county, Oklahoma. Adjoining this tract to the west defendant owns an oil and gas lease under which it drilled an oil well in 1942 and which well at the time of the trial, in 1948, was a producing oil well. Plaintiff contends that the defendant has permitted salt water…