Legal Opinion
Foster v. Railroad Commission of Texas
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided July 15, 1959No. 10722PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRAY, Justice.
This is a Rule 37 case and is an appeal from a judgment sustaining an order of the Railroad Commission granting a permit to Curtis Hickey to drill a well on his .625 acre tract in the Bethany Field in Panola County.
Appellant, W. H. Foster, the owner of oil and gas leasehold estates in the field, sued the Commission and Hickey to cancel the above permit.
At the time the suit was filed the well had not been drilled and appellant prayed for an injunction restraining the drilling thereof.
Appellant, in his pleadings, set out in part the spacing rule applicable to the field and alleged:
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Halbouty v. DarseyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1959
3Cited by8 opinions
- Benz-Stoddard v. Aluminum Company of AmericaTexas Supreme Court · 1963
- Atlantic Refining Co. v. Railroad Commission of TexasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1959
- Halbouty v. DarseyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1960
- Coloma Oil and Gas Corp. v. Railroad CommissionCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1961
- Colorado Interstate Gas Company v. SearsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1962
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