General American Oil Co. of Texas v. Gulf Oil Corp.

SUTTON; Justice.

This is an appeal from the 126th District Court of Travis County. The parties will be designated as in the trial court. The Gulf was plaintiff and the General American and the Railroad Commission and its members defendants.

The suit was to set aside an order and permit to drill an oil well on a 3.63-acre tract of land in Rusk County made and granted August 1, 1939, under the confiscation exception to Commission Rule 37. The case was first heard by the trial court on the prayer for injunction. All operations under the permit were enjoined. On appeal the trial court’s judgment…