Rd. Commission of Texas v. Morgan

BAUGH, Justice.

Suit was filed by Morgan, doing business as the Prescott Oil Company, against the Railroad Commission, as an appeal from its order refusing him a permit or tender to move 14,580 barrels of crude oil captured by him in his pick-up station on Rabbit creek in Gregg county, Tex. He alleged that he had captured said oil as fugitive or abandoned oil flowing down said creek; that he did not know the origin of such oil, but believed that it was waste oil which had “escaped from various wells and pipe lines on property lying adjacent to said creek above the pick-up station above…