Skipper v. Davis

(after stating the case as above).

In order to determine the right of the appellants to have the issuance of an injunction, as the only means of effectuating a decree upon the merits of the principal controversy, there is included as a necessary consequence (1) the proper construction of the deed from H. T. Elder to the trustees of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and (2) the decision as to the rights and privileges the several parties to the suit may have in the oil under the land under the established facts in the case.

The rule is too well established to admit of debate that the deed…