STANOLIND OIL & GAS CO. v. GILES

No. 13698.

197 F.2d 290 (1952)

STANOLIND OIL & GAS CO. v. GILES.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 6, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Griffis, Jr., San Angelo, Tex., for appellant.

John F. Sutton, Jr., San Angelo, Tex., E. C. Grindstaff, E. B. Underwood, Ballinger, Tex., for appellee.

Before BORAH, RUSSELL and RIVES, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Stanolind Oil & Gas Company has appealed from a judgment rendered against it in favor of J. M. Giles for the destruction of Giles' water well. Trial was to the court without a jury, and the Court stated its findings of fact in a brief oral opinion as follows:

"I find, gentlemen, as facts, that the plaintiff had a satisfactory well of water, which had served his six-hundred-and-some-odd acre farm for a great many years, for stock...

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