Texas Co. v. Wall

TREANOR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of injunction entered by the District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. The decree enjoined and restrained defendants-appellants, Clark, Wall and Bresnahan, from entering upon any part of a certain twenty-acre tract of land for the purpose of mining or operating for oil or gas or laying pipe lines or building tanks or other structures thereon to produce oil or gas so long as the oil and gas lease of the plaintiff, Texas Company, remained in force.

Plaintiff is the holder and owner of an oil and gas lease made by Clyde Lee and…