BRANCH v. WESTERN PETROLEUM, INC.

No. 17178.

657 P.2d 267 (1982)

Lloyd BRANCH and Jeanne Branch, Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. WESTERN PETROLEUM, INC., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Utah.

November 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gayle F. McKeachnie, Clark B. Allred, Vernal, for defendant and appellant.

George E. Mangan, Herbert W. Gillespie, Roosevelt, for plaintiffs and respondents.


STEWART, Justice:

The Branches, the plaintiff property owners, sued for damages for the pollution of their culinary water wells caused by percolation of defendant Western Petroleum Inc.'s formation waters (waste waters from oil wells containing various chemical contaminants) into the subterranean water system that feeds the wells. A jury answered questions to special interrogatories, finding, inter alia, that the formation...

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