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- Title: United Fuel Gas Co. v. Sawyers
- Author : Court Of Appeals Of Kentucky
- Release Date : January 19, 1953
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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STANLEY, Commissioner. The judgment is for $400 damages for the contamination of a water well charged to have been caused by a nearby gas well. We sustain the motion for an appeal. In building a home at a considerable cost near Pikeville in 1941, the appellee, Edgar Sawyers, drilled a well 69 feet deep, only one foot of which was in rock, and obtained a supply of good water. The depth was reached in three days of drilling. The well was stopped at that point because other wells in the neighborhood drilled deeper into the rock had been getting sulphur water. It was cased with metal, hermetically sealed at the joints, down to the rock. There was pure water in the well for some ten years until the appellant's gas well on adjoining property was in process of being drilled 450 feet away on substantially the same plane. After the drilling operations had continued for three days, the water in Sawyers' well began to be salty and sulphurous. He promptly advised the defendant's agents of this fact. The water became nauseating and unfit for domestic purposes, and permanently discolored appellee's plumbing fixtures. Sawyers testified he did not know how the mineral substances got into his well.
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