Jackson v. Cooper

WILLIAMS, Justice.

Frank J. Jackson and others not necessary to name, plaintiffs below, who have relatives buried in a public cemetery which served the Post Oak, Powder Horn and Hog Eye communities, sought to enjoin the Post Oak Baptist Church of the Colored Missionary Baptist Church of America, and O. R. Cooper, its lessee under an oil and gas lease, from drilling for oil upon a certain tract of land which plaintiffs claimed to be a part of the cemetery. The court in response to jury findings vacated a temporary writ of injunction theretofore issued, and denied plaintiffs all affirmative or…