Joyner v. R. H. Dearing & Sons

PRICE, Chief Justice.

This case is here on writ of error to review a judgment of the District Court of Rusk County. Plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs below and will be here referred to as such; defendants in error will be designated as defendants.

Plaintiffs sought to prevent by injunction the erection of a dwelling house for an employee of defendants on a certain 7½-acre tract of land in Rusk County, the surface estate to which was vested in plaintiffs. The estate to the minerals thereunder vested in defendants. The mineral estate was vested in defendants by virtue of an oil and gas lease…