Pitzer West v. Thigpen

POWER, Justice.

Appellee, Charlie Thigpen, instituted this suit in the county court of Young county, Tex., alleging, in substance, that he owned and operated a small dairy in Young county, Tex., and had a small pasture leased immediately adjoining the oil and gas lease of appellants, Pitzer & West; that appellee’s lease was to the south of appellants’ oil and gas lease; that he owned and kept some fine Jersey dairy cows; that on appellants’ oil and gas lease were some producing wells; that the natural drainage from appellants’ lease was toward and through appellee’s pasture; that from the…