Scurry Area Canyon Reef Operators Corp. v. Popnoe

LONG, Justice.

R. C. Popnoe sued Scurry Area Canyon Reef Operators Corp., Cities Service Oil Corporation, Magnolia Petroleum Company and Magnolia Pipe Line Company, seeking an injunction to restrain them from severing a gas connection on his land in Scurry County, Texas. The court granted a temporary restraining order and upon a hearing granted a temporary injunction as prayed for. The defendants have appealed.

Appellants, by their first point, urge that the court erred in granting the temporary injunction because appellee failed to allege or establish the probable existence of a right which…