Railroad Commission v. Patton

BLAIR, Justice.

• Appellee filed this suit to review the rulings of the agents of the Railroad Commission refusing his applications for tenders to move 24,101 barrels of crude oil and 15,000 barrels of fuel oil. Appellee alleged and testified that he was the rightful and lawful owner of the crude oil, having picked it up in traps constructed and maintained by him on certain creeks, drains, and ditches in Gregg county, Tex.; that same was abandoned, waste, and fugitive oil which had “escaped from lawful operation of many wells, tanks, pits, etc.,” in the Gladewater oil field and surrounding…