SHELL OIL COMPANY v. Rudder

299 S.W.2d 686 (1957)

SHELL OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Relator,

v.

J. Earl RUDDER, Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, Respondent.

No. A-5955.

Supreme Court of Texas.

March 6, 1957.

Jesse M. Davis and T. G. Johnson, Jr., Tulsa, Okl., Dan Moody, Austin, for relator.

John Ben Shepperd, Atty. Gen., J. Arthur Sandlin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

GARWOOD, Justice.

Relator, Shell Oil Company, brings this original mandamus proceeding to require the respondent, J. Earl Rudder, Commissioner of the General Land Office, to file for record in his office certain oil and…