Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. State

HUGHES, Justice.

Appellant, Magnolia Petroleum Company, whose domicile is in Dallas County, appeals from an interlocutory judgment overruling its plea of privilege.

The State sued appellant and numerous ■other parties, alleging, in the main, that they were the owners or operators of oil and gas leases in the Luling and Salt Flat Oil Fields in Caldwell and Guadalupe Counties, from which leases some oil and large quantities of salt water were being produced, and that such salt water was allowed or permitted to escape, flow into, and pollute and contaminate the waters of the Guadalupe River, its…