Holmes v. Delhi-Taylor Oil Corporation

MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by Delhi-Taylor Corporation and Mayfair Minerals, Inc., against Christian R. Holmes and William L. Dugger, Jr., doing business as Dugger & Holmes, John W. Voss Drilling Company, Inc., and the City of Pharr, a municipal corporation of Hidalgo County, Texas, seeking a temporary injunction, and on final hearing a permanent injunction, restraining the defendants among other things, from sand-fracturing the sub-strata of a gas well within the corporate limits of the City of Pharr, which was directionally drilled from an adjoining lot and bottomed in…