Puryear v. Red River Authority of Texas

DENTON, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Tom G. Puryear, appealed from a summary judgment which permanently enjoined him from preventing appel-lee, The Red River Authority of Texas, from going onto appellant’s land in Wheeler County, Texas, and conducting core drilling tests. On October 8, 1963, appellee sought and obtained a temporary restraining order to restrain appellant’s interference with the core drilling operations which appellee sought to undertake in order to determine the feasibility of locating a dam on Sweet- water Creek. By agreement, no temporary injunction was issued, and the case was…