Constantin v. Smith

(after stating the issues and facts as above)..

This suit, involving the exercise of the judicial power of the United States to restrain by injunction R. S. Sterling, W. W. Sterling, and Jacob F. Wollers, holding the offices respectively of Governor of the state of Texas, adjutant general, and brigadier general, from, under the claim of military necessity, limiting the production from plaintiffs’ wells in the East Texas oil field where the Governor has declared martial law, presents, in a fundamental way, questions of executive and judicial power.

The ease is one of wide interest and concern.…