Pope v. Bridgewater Gas Co.

POEEENBARGER, JUDGE:

The Bridgewater Gas Company appeals from an order made by the circuit court of Wirt County, refusing to dissolve an *253injunction, obtained by Pope Brothers and Company, restraining the appellant from keeping its fires going in its boiler and forges in drilling an oil well near a completed well belonging to the appellees, which was producing both gas and oil. On the 15th day of May, 1901, Pope Brothers and Company drilled in their well on a tract of land owned by them, and at a poitajt very near the line between it and a tract of land belonging to one Jacob Swisher on which…