Smith v. Merrill

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs below, the trustees of a colored cemetery association, and their lessee, *610brought this suit against the' individual members of the Railroad Commission of the state of Texas, and its general enforcement officer, to enjoin interference with drilling for oil upon a tract of land consisting of three-tenths of an acre, claimed to belong to said cemetery association. Under a rule of the court below, that any one interested in the subject-matter of such suits should be notified, notice was given to the Humble Oil & Refining Company, which intervened herein, claiming…