There was a court case in Kentucky many years ago ('30s or '40s)
concerning a show cave that ran under a neighbor's property. In that
case it was determined that the owner of the surface owns to the
center of the earth. (Separation of mineral rights was not a question
in that case.) But that was just a local court in Kentucky and doesn't
have much standing in Texas. There are lots of exceptions to that
principle. For example, your well can suck water out from under a
neighbor's property without permission in Texas. Something closer to
parallel to the disposal-well question in Texas might be the rules
here about oil and gas resources. I don't know details, but I assume a
landowner cannot prevent an oil well on a neighbor's property on the
grounds that it will suck oil out from under his own, but no doubt
there are rules in place to assure he gets a cut. In the case of
disposal wells connected with oil and gas drilling or production,
something similar might be applicable. -- Mixon
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