Railroad Commission v. Lacy

BAUGH, Justice.

This case arose as follows: W. D. Lacy, operating under the trade-name of the Lacy Reclamation Plant, claiming to be the owner of 13,975 barrels of waste or fugitive crude-oil stored in open pits and steel tanks erected by him in the town of Kilgore in Gregg county, and to have been entrapped by him on Said premises between August *12015, 1935, and January 7, 1936, on the latter date applied to the Tender Board of the Railroad Commission on form SW-3 for a permit to move that amount of crude oil. Hearing was had on said application on January 24, 1936, and said permit refused by the…