Hodges v. Christmas

This case presents an appeal from., an order granting a temporary writ of injunction. Appellees, J. G. Christmas and others, brought this suit on October 3, 1918, in trespass to try title against appellants, and, after describing the land sued for by metes and bounds, and as being a part of the Emsy Miller survey in Eastland county, alleged that said land is chiefly valuable as a mineral property and for the development of oil and gas, and that appellants, without the consent of appellees, un lawfully entered upon said land and erected thereon a derrick and other suitable machinery -and began…