BREAUX v. MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM COMPANY

No. 294.

131 So.2d 615 (1961)

Alphonse L. BREAUX et al. v. MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM COMPANY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 12, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Sheldon Toomer, Elsie May Whitman, Lake Charles, for plaintiffs.

Anderson, Hall, Raggio & Furrar, by Edgar F. Barnett, Liskow & Lewis, by B. H. Hines, Lake Charles, for defendant.

Before FRUGE, SAVOY and CULPEPPER, JJ.


SAVOY, Judge.

Plaintiffs filed this action in tort against defendant alleging that certain cattle belonging to plaintiffs died because they were poisoned by the drilling compound used by defendant in the drilling of a well and which compound containing poisoning escaped from the well location and ran into the water supply in the pasture where plaintiffs' cattle were grazing.

After a trial on the merits, the district judge held that plaintiffs had not borne...

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