Texas Company v. Hollingsworth

This cause comes to this court by the granting of a leave to appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the Fourth District. That court reversed a decree of the circuit court of Marion county dismissing plaintiff’s complaint for want of equity and striking its petition for a subsurface directional survey of defendants’ oil wells.

■ Defendants owned an oil lease on a tract of land one-half a mile long, six feet wide at one end and thirty-three feet at the other. Nine wells had been drilled on this strip all being located on or near the center line, and all of them were producing oil.…