WEAVER v. REED

No. 3315.

303 S.W.2d 808 (1957)

Carnes W. WEAVER, Appellant, v. D. M. REED, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Eastland.

May 31, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Houston, for appellant.

Kelly, Hunt & Cullen, Victoria, for appellee.


GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

D. M. Reed owned and operated a cattle ranch on which Carnes W. Weaver had, so far as is here material, the usual oil and gas lease and a producing oil well. Reed claimed that five head of his cattle consumed a pipe lubricant from an open bucket left near the well and from pipe stacked at the well and died as a result thereof. A jury found that Weaver's employee left a bucket containing pipe lubricant open; that it contained elements injurious...

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