Hill v. Pure Oil Co.

The action was by the Pure Oil Company, a corporation, for injunction, temporary and permanent, restraining George Hill, stated in the words'of the prayer of the petition, “from interfering with the plaintiff’s possession of the said property, from going upon the same for the purpose of drilling an oil well thereon, from erecting a derrick or any other building on the same, from drilling any character of well thereon, and from doing any and all acts of drilling or development of said property for oil, gas or other minerals.” The property right sought to be protected, and the subject-matter of…