Midas Oil Co. v. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co.

This is a Rule 37 case. The Railroad Commission issued to Midas Oil Company, hereinafter referred to as Midas, a permit to drill a second oil well on a 2.14-acre tract of land in Gregg County. Stanolind Oil & Gas Company, hereinafter referred to as Stanolind, brought this suit under the provisions of Section 8 of Article 6049c, Vernon’s Revised Civil Statutes, to cancel the permit and to enjoin Midas from producing oil from the well which had been drilled under said permit. There have been two prior appeals of this same case.

On the former appeals it was held that the permit had been illegally…