ROCK ISLAND OIL & REFINING CO. v. MARNEY

No. 34845.

208 Okla. 264 (1953)

255 P.2d 239

ROCK ISLAND OIL & REFINING CO., Inc., et al. v. MARNEY et ux.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied March 31, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.D. Cund, Duncan, Edward Howell, Oklahoma City, and J.D. DeBois, Duncan, for plaintiffs in error.

H.B. Lockett and Hegel Branch, Duncan, for defendants in error.


O'NEAL, J.

In this case there was evidence to sustain the finding of the jury that in the operation of defendants' refineries during the year 1948, crude oil and refinery waste escaped from defendants' plants and drained into Cow Creek. Cow Creek heads north and meanders in a southerly direction as it passes the defendants' refineries. In the operation of these refineries, especially in the year 1948, substantial quantities of effluent water, impregnated with oil...

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