Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Railroad Commission

BLAIR, Justice.

This is the second appeal of the Brow* Case; a rule 37 case. The first appeal was from an interlocutory order denying a temporary injunction to restrain the drilling and operation of an oil well on a l%-acre tract’of land in the East Texas Oil Field, which was subdivided from a 3-acre tract; a well having been drilled on the other 1½ acres of the 3-acre tract; and this court and the Supreme Cour.t held that the court abused its discretion in not granting the temporary injunction, because a voluntary subdivision of a tract of land will not entitle the owner of a subdivided…