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MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. v. WILLIAMS

No. 39418.

222 Miss. 538 (1954)

76 So.2d 365

MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. v. WILLIAMS.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 20, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brunini, Everett, Grantham & Quin, Vicksburg and Jackson; Earl A. Brown, Charles B. Wallace, Dallas, Texas; John M. Grower, Jackson, for appellant.

Woodrow C. Jones, Waynesboro, for appellee.

GILLESPIE, J.

Magnolia Petroleum Company, appellant, drilled two oil wells in 1948 in the Yellow Creek Field in Wayne County, Mississippi. These two oil wells produced about twelve barrels of salt water each day which was emptied into a disposal pit located 991.6 feet northwest of the water well of J.W. Williams, appellee. This water well was drilled in December, 1950 to a depth of 67 feet, and produced good water which was used for human and animal consumption. On...

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