Texas Co. v. Railroad Commission of Texas

GRAY, Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case. The question presented is the validity of a special permit granted appellees jointly to drill a well on a 4½ acre tract of land, a part of the H. F. Robinson survey, in the Hawkins oil field in Wood County. Appellee, Humble. Qil and Refining Company (later referred to as Humble), owns an oil and gas lease on an undivided three-fourths, interest in the tract, and appellee, Harry M. Jones, owns the fee title to the remaining undivided one-fourth interest in said tract.- The application for the permit joined these undivided interests for the purposes of the…