Sneed v. Phillips Petroleum Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from orders dismissing, for want of equity, bills seeking injunc-tive relief. Each of the bills in these cases, though brought by a different plaintiff in relation to different properties, and charging different defendants, advances the same ideas, makes the same charges, asks the same relief. The general idea advanced is that adjoining owners and operators of gas lands-in a common pool, that is, one subject to common drainage, have an equity against each other to restrain the taking of gas from the pool for wasteful uses. The particular idea…