Ortiz Oil Co. v. Deep Rock Oil Corp.

BLAIR, Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case. The proceeding arose as an appeal by appellees, Deep Rock Oil Corporation and Magnolia Petroleum Company, seeking to cancel a permit issued by the appellant Railroad Commission authorizing appellant Ortiz Oil Company to drill well No. 10 on its 16.12-acre tract of land in the East Texas Oil Field, and to plug the well if it had been drilled. The petition contained the usual allegations of waste caused by density of drilling; that the 16.12-acre tract with nine wells was already drilled to a greater density than the average of land surrounding it,…