Spear v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.

BLAIR, Justice.

This is á Rule 37 case. It involves the validity of the special permit to drill well No. 2 on a 1-ácre tract of land out of the Mary ' Van Winkle Survey, Gregg' County,'in the East'Texas-'Oil Field. The permit to drill the second well on the 1-acre tract was granted appellant, Angus B. Spear, the lessee of the oil and gas estate in the land, as an exception to the *213general spacing distances prescribed by Rule 37, on the recited ground that the second well was necessary “to prevent confiscation” of his property. Appellee, Humble Oil & Refining Company, filed this proceeding,…