Speedman Oil Co. v. Duval County Ranch Co., Inc.

CADENA, Justice.

Defendants, the Speedman Oil Company, Fred M. Speed and D. A. Mansheim, seek dissolution of a temporary injunction restraining them from pumping, flowing or producing any oil or gas from leases located on land owned by plaintiff, Duval County Ranch Company.

Plaintiff’s suit seeks cancellation of an oil and gas lease which has been assigned to defendants by the original lessee, and recovery of $2,000,000 actual damages and a like amount as exemplary damages because of alleged permanent injury to the surface of plaintiff’s land as a result of defendants’ operations. The…