Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Railroad Commission

BLAIR, Justice.

The Railroad Commission granted ap-pellee, R. M. Wood, a permit to drill an oil well on a 1-acre tract of land in Gregg County, as an exception to the general spacing provisions of the East Texas Rule 37. Separate suits were filed ,by appellants, Shell Petroleum Company and Rowan & Nichols Oil Company, as appeals from the order granting the permit, which suits were consolidated, and Amerada Petroleum Company intervened. The final judgment sustained the permit.

Appellants attack the judgment upon the ground that the permit is illegal, unjust, and unreasonable, because there was…