HUMBLE OIL & RFG. CO. v. PITTMAN, ET AL.

No. 37736.

210 Miss. 314 (1950)

49 So.2d 408

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO. v. PITTMAN, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B.

December 18, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe A. Thompson and Heidelberg & Roberts, for appellant.

L.K. Saul and Homer Pittman, for appellees.


Alexander, J.

Appellees brought suit for damages allegedly caused to a well upon their lands by experimental charges of dynamite fired in testing by seismograph the structure of the underlying strata for purposes of exploration.

Three charges were fired by appellant. Two were made with two pounds of dynamite at a depth of sixty-five feet and one of two and one-half pounds at a depth of forty feet. The...

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