State Ex Rel. Corley v. Hines

Appellees, complainants in the trial court, are engaged in the profession of combating the ravages of termites in wooden buildings, or in the wooden portions of buildings. Termites live in subterranean colonies sometimes as much as 25 to 30 feet underground, and their food is obtained from the glucose found in wood, in search of which the insects in large numbers attack the wood in buildings. The only practical method of control is to insulate them from the wooden portions of a structure so that they cannot reach any such portions. They can penetrate a crack in a brick or concrete foundation…