Reynolds v. Ward Oil Corp.

WALKER, Chief Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case; see Gulf Land Co. v. Atlantic Refining Co., 134 Tex. 59, 131 S.W.2d 73, for a statement of the rule.. “To prevent Confiscation of property,” on the 26th day of April, 1938, the Railroad Commission granted to appellant, Roy A. Reynolds, a permit to drill a third well on the E. S. Trash one-acre tract, F. Cordova Survey, Rusk county, the well to be located 40 feet south of the north line, and 30 feet east of the west line, of the one-acre tract. On the 25th day of May, 1938, appellee, Ward Oil Corporation, holding an oil and gas lease on a 200-acre…