SUN OIL COMPANY v. WHITAKER

No. 7700.

412 S.W.2d 680 (1967)

SUN OIL COMPANY, Appellant, v. Earnest WHITAKER et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stubbeman, McRea, Sealy & Laughlin, W. B. Browder, Jr., and James G. Noland, Midland, Charles F. Heidrick and E. M. Cage, Dallas, for appellant.

Allison, Mann & Allison, Earl R. Allison, Levelland, for appellees.

Nelson, McCleskey & Harriger, Don Graf, Lubbock, for intervenor.


DENTON, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by Sun Oil Company seeking a temporary and permanent injunction against Earnest Whitaker and Doyle Henderson. Sun seeks to enjoin the two named defendants from preventing or interfering with Sun's use of underground fresh water under a 267 acre tract of land in Hockley County, Texas, for a proposed water flooding project. The High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 intervened. The trial court, after...

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