Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Railroad Commission

BAUGH, Justice.

Appeal is from the judgment of the trial court refusing to appellants, after a hearing upon the merits, an injunction against appellee A. D. Robinson to restrain him from drillling or operating two additional oil wells on a 7½-acre tract of land in Gregg county, Tex.; and to cancel a permit granted to him by the Railroad Commission on July 20, 1934, to drill such wells.

Robinson owned a lease on a 7^acre tract in the East Texas field near the center of which he operated one producing well.. The Shell Petroleum Corporation owned the leases adjoining Robinson’s tract on the north…