Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Mecom

COLEMAN, Justice.

By this action appellant sought a judgment requiring appellee to abandon and plug a producing gas well located on leases owned by appellee within the City of Hitchcock, Texas. Essentially it is appellant’s theory that the drilling of a producing gas well by appellant, under a permit issued by the city, on a block created by a comprehensive drilling ordinance enacted by the city, which limited to one the number of wells which could be drilled on each block to each producing sand, gave appellant the vested right to be the sole producer of the gas underlying the lands within…