Atlantic Oil Production Co. v. Railroad Commission

McClendon, chief justice.

Appeal from a final judgment in favor of defendants, in an action to set aside an order of the Railroad Commission granting an application to. drill a third oil well on a 6-acre tract in the East Téxas field as an exception to rule 37, prohibiting the drilling of wells nearer together than 660 feet and hearer than 330 feet to a property line. The order recited that the application was granted “to prevent confiscation of property.”

The situation presented for review will be more readily grasped by reference to the following map, showing the adjacent development at the…