Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Railroad Commission

McClendon, chief justice.

This is an oil well spacing (rule 37) case. The appeal is from a judgment refusing to set aside an order of the Railroad Commission which denied to the Magnolia Petroleum Company a permit to drill an eleventh (designated No. 10) well on the O. G. Grissom 84.12-acre lease in the East Texas oil field. The leasehold covers a rectangular strip approximately 3,457 feet long (east-west) and 1,060 feet wide (north-south). Well No. 10 was spaced 330 feet east of the west line, and 304.8 feet south of the north line. It was 256 feet northwest of well No. 2, which is 454.5 feet…