Kansas Statutes Annotated
K.S.A. § 55-121 (2026)
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55-121.
History: L. 1921, ch. 198, § 1; R.S. 1923, 55-121; L. 1951, ch. 327, § 1; Repealed, L. 1986, ch. 201, § 41; July 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1955–1989 · leading case: McAlister v. Atl. Richfield Co., 662 P.2d 1203 (Kan. 1983).
McAlister v. Atl. Richfield Co., 662 P.2d 1203 (Kan. 1983). “: This is an action for damages caused by alleged violations of the Oil Well Pollution Act, K.S.A. 55-121. The issues of liability and damages were bifurcated and the matter proceeded on the issue of liability only.”
Miller v. Cudahy Co., 567 F. Supp. 892 (D. Kan. 1983). “The plaintiff filed case number 54,357 some seven years after his well water became undrinkable, naming as defendants two oil companies that had last conducted operations in the area in the 1930s and 1940s. The plaintiff also alleged “that not less than 150 nor more than 400…”
Augustine v. Hinnen, 443 P.2d 354 (Kan. 1968). “It was ordered that the questions of fact for determination were (1) whether defendants allowed the escape of deleterious substances to the damage of plaintiffs, (2) whether the escape was within the time provided by the statute of limitations, (3) was the escape beyond the…”
McLeod v. Cities Serv. Gas Co., 131 F. Supp. 449 (D. Kan. 1955). “§ 55-121, 1953 Supp., which provides: “Salt water, oil or refuse from wells; prevention of escape.”
McAlister v. Comm'r, 57 T.C.M. 166 (Tax Ct. 1989). “)) and affirmed the trial court's conclusion that the pollution of the aquifer resulted in permanent damages to the Kansas schoolhouse property.”
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