Camp v. Atlantic Refining Co.

WILLIAMS, Justice.

A permit granted by the Railroad Commission of Texas under an exception to rule 37 to drill the oil well here involved on a 16/100-acre tract in the Henry Hathaway Survey, Gregg County, was on appeal invalidated. See Atlantic Refining Co. v. Buckley, Tex.Civ.App., 123 S.W.2d 413. During pendency of above appeal, Cliff Camp and C. Orm, composing the co-partnership of Cliff Cámp Drilling Company, John T. Buckley and others, owners of the mineral leasehold estate, drilled the well into production. Thereafter, on or about July 1, 1939, a new permit because of alleged changed…