Continental Oil Co. v. City of Groesbeck

ALEXANDER, Justice.

The trial court, upon the petition of the city of Groesbeck, issued a temporary writ of injunction restraining the Continental Oil Company from polluting the city’s water supply by the discharging of salt water and other obnoxious matters into Navasota river and its tributaries. The defendant appealed.

Appellant contends that the court erred in granting the temporary injunction because there was no evidence that it had ever knowingly or negligently polluted the city’s water supply. There was evidence that for several weeks prior to the filing of the suit the water in…