BURNS v. LAMB

No. 15903.

312 S.W.2d 730 (1958)

Lillian May BURNS, Independent Executrix of the Estate of L. T. Burns, Deceased, Appellant, v. T. S. LAMB et ux., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied May 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tipps, Sanders, Masters & Watson, and H. W. Sanders, Wichita Falls, McDonald, Sanders, Nichols, Wynn & Ginsburg, and Atwood McDonald, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Jennings & Montgomery and Frank L Jennings, Graham, for appellees.


BOYD, Justice.

Lillian May Burns, independent executrix of the estate of L. T. Burns, deceased, appeals from a judgment rendered for T. S. Lamb and wife, Pauline M. Lamb, for damages to a tract of 544.5 acres of land in the sum of $40,837.50 alleged to have been caused by salt water escaping from an oil lease operated by L. T. Burns on land adjacent to appellees' tract.

The jury found that L. T. Burns permitted...

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