Drane v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.

Appellants filed this suit against eleven different oil companies and the Powell Salt Water Company, seeking damages to 746.8 acres of land owned by them and located within the levee district on Richland and Chambers creeks in Navarro county, and seeking an injunction restraining appellees from permitting salt water and other mineral waters from running down said creeks along the levee embankments surrounding said land. Appellants alleged that when the levee was built inclosing said land owned by them, the channels of said creeks were changed to run along by the -levee embankments on tbe…