Jones v. Getty Oil Company

458 S.W.2d 93 (1970)

John H. JONES, Appellant,

v.

GETTY OIL COMPANY, Appellee.

No. 14847.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

July 22, 1970.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1970.

Cayton, Gresham & Fulbright, Lamesa, for appellant.

Turpin, Smith, Dyer, Hardie & Harman, Irby L. Dyer, Midland, Clyde E. Willbern, Cloy D. Monzingo, Houston, for appellee.

BARROW, Chief Justice.

This appeal presents the unique question of the right of the mineral lessee to use the vertical space over the land for the erection of pumping units to such height that they prevent the landowner from irrigating much of his…