Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Railroad Commission

MCCLENDON, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought in the nature of an appeal, to set aside an order of the Railroad Commission granting a permit, as an exception to the spacing restrictions of rule 37, to drill an oil well on a 2½⅛01'6 tract in the Conroe oil field in Montgomery county, and for ancillary injunctive relief. The plaintiff (appellant here) owns an oil lease on a tract adjoining the 2½ acres. Defendants are the Railroad Commission, its members, and the owners and others having an interest in the 2%-acre lease. The appeal is from a final judgment of dismissal, after a general…