Prairie Oil & Gas Co. v. State
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Third Supreme Judicial District. Suit by the State of Texas against the Prairie Oil & Gas Company and others. An order granting temporary injunction was modified and affirmed by the Court of Civil
1Opinion of the CourtKittrell, J.
The facts out of which the litigation in this case arose are, so far as it is necessary to set them forth, as follows:
1. The state issued a permit to one Hodges and another permit to one Collett to explore for oil and gas on certain small areas of land within carefully defined boundaries, fn Eastland county, which land the state claimed to be parts of the vacant and unappropriated public domain. The permits were issued pursuant to the provisions of chapter 83 of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Thirty-Pifth Legislature (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. Supp. 1918, arts. 5904-5904w).
2. The…
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