Wakefield v. Corporation Commission

*1004The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wedell, J.:

This was an injunction suit against the State Corporation Commission. Plaintiff prevailed, and the commission appealed. We shall refer to the parties as the plaintiff and the commission.

Plaintiff was a resident of Sedgwick county and the owner of a producing oil and gas lease in Cowley county. The commission issued a proration order which restricted the production of oil from wells on plaintiff’s lease. The purpose of the suit was to restrain and enjoin the commission from enforcing its proration order which limited the production of oil to…