Gulf Oil Corp. v. Rudco Oil & Gas Co.

BLAIR, Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case. The Commission granted appellee Rudco Oil & Gas Company a permit to drill well No. 5, a fifth well on its 5-acre tract of land in the East Texas Oil Field in Rusk County. The well was applied for and granted as an equidistant offset to the J. D. Nantz well No. 1 located 25 feet south of Rudco’s south line; and was granted as an exception to the general spacing distances of the rule “to prevent confiscation of property.”

Appellant, Gulf Oil Corporation, sought in the court below, and here seeks, to set aside the permit and to perpetually enjoin production…