People's Petroleum Producers, Inc. v. Smith

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

At a former hearing of these causes [People’s Petroleum Producers, Inc., v. Sterling (D. C.) 60 F.(2d) 1041], we denied the temporary injunction. The evidence, however, of the enormous and constantly increasing disproportion between the allowed and the potential production in the East Texas field, of its apportionment equally per well, regardless of capacity; of the powerful and unremitting pressure of the oil industry as a whole to limit the production of crude oil in Texas to the quota fixed by agreement to equal the demand for refined products which the market…