Supreme Court of Louisiana May 25, 1925, No. 27168. (Everett v. Hue & Aarnes)

On Motion to Dismiss.

LAND, J.

On February 18, 1925, the Commissioner of Conservation obtained from the Second judicial district court for the parish of Webster “a temporary injunction,” closing two oil wells in said parish, owned and operated by defendants, a copartnership, on the ground that natural gas was being permitted to escape in the open air under conditions that constituted a waste of