Texas Pipe Line Co. v. Burton Drilling Co.

At the suit of Burton Drilling Company, the court below issued, ex parte and without notice, an interlocutory mandatory injunction commanding the Texas Pipe Line Company, a common carrier engaged in transporting crude oil, to desist from refusing to accept and transport certain petroleum oil belonging to appellee, and to accept and transport same in due course of business, until further ordered by the court.

Without moving to dissolve or to suspend operation of the writ, the pipe line company appealed direct from the order; hence the allegations of appellee’s petition, for the purposes of this…