Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. McClendon

— Relator’s motion for permission to file petition for the issuance of a writ of mandamus is refused for the reasons hereinafter stated. The Railroad Commission of Texas entered an order refusing to issue to respondent Blankenship a permit to drill an oil and gas well on a tract containing approximately one-half of an acre of land in Gregg County. In a suit filed by Blankenship in the District Court of Travis County in the nature of an appeal from said order, and in which relator intervened on account of its ownership of an oil and gas lease on adjoining land, judgment was rendered annulling…