Atlantic Refining Company v. Bright & Schiff

POPE, Justice.

This is an appeal from orders which denied a temporary injunction- to appellants and granted a temporary injunction to ap-pellee. The suit concerns the nature of the surface rights owned by a mineral lessee. Appellants, The Atlantic Refining Company, Dudley T. Dougherty and Tidewater Oil Company, hereafter referred to merely as Atlantic, own oil and gas leases on lands which have been unitized in the Normanna Gas Field in Bee County. Simon Del Bosque and wife, among many others, were lessors to Atlantic. Located in the middle of this gas field is a small town lot which is 79…