Tenneco Oil Co. v. District Court of the Twentieth Judicial District

HODGES, Justice.

Petitioners seek in this original action a writ of prohibition against the respondent judge prohibiting him from exercising jurisdiction in a partition suit and for dissolution of a temporary injunction. The issue involved is the right of the trial court to partition oil and gas leases that have been previously unitized under an order of the Corporation Commission. We find the writ of prohibition should be granted.

In 1967, certain lease owners, including State Oil Company, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, agreed to unitize their oil and gas leases. They submitted a Plan…