Hastings Oil Co. v. Texas Co.

This is an injunction suit filed by The Texas Company et al., respondents, against Hastings Oil Company et al., petitioners. A trial court order granting a temporary injunction was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 227 S. W. 2d 317.

Petitioners and respondents own oil and gas leases on adjoining tracts of land, petitioners’ being known as the Mays and respondents’ as the Phillips. Both tracts lie on the north flank of the West Columbia salt dome, for which reason the subsurface oil formations slope from the apex of the dome downward in a northerly direction. The Mays tract lies northwest…