Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Lasseter

McClendon, chief justice.

This is a Rule 37 case. The appeal is from an interlocutory order refusing a temporary injunction restraining the drilling of and production from an oil well upon a 1.41-acre subdivision of a 32.45-acre oil lease in the East Texas Oil field, in a suit by the Humble to set aside an order of the Commission granting a permit to Lasseter to drill the well.

The permit was granted “to protect vested rights”; and the hearing upon the application for temporary injunction was confined to the issue of Lasseter’s right to drill the well upon the 1.41-acre tract independently of…