Coloma Oil & Gas Corporation v. Railroad Commission

358 S.W.2d 566 (1962)

COLOMA OIL & GAS CORPORATION, Petitioner,

v.

RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Respondents.

No. A-8625.

Supreme Court of Texas.

June 6, 1962.

Rehearing Denied July 11, 1962.

Wood & Boykin, Corpus Christi, for petitioner.

Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., Houghton Brownlee, Jr., Linward Shivers, and B. H. Timmins, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Perkins, Floyd, Davis & Oden, Alice, for respondents.

STEAKLEY, Justice.

This case reaches us in an exceptional status and under unusual circumstances; in view of its disposition the facts will be noted only briefly.

Respondent Railroad Commission granted…