Sun Oil Co. v. Gillespie

McClendon, chief justice.

Appeal by the Sun Oil Company and the Railroad Commission from a final judgment perpetually enjoining the commission from enforcing an order of the latter denying to appellee a permit to drill a third oil well upon an 8.65-acre tract of land in the East Texas oil field as an exception to rule 37 requiring wells to be not less than 660 feet apart, and 330 feet from property line.

The order was attacked on the ground that a 15-acre tract to the east and a 15-acre tract to the south had five producing wells each, or one well to each three acres, whereas, the tract in…