Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Railroad Commission

BAUGH, Justice.

This is a rule 37 case. Appeal is from a judgment' of the District Court refusing to set aside as invalid a permit granted to Edith Osborn Pyle on July 9, 1935, to drill a well on a .5-acre tract of land 104 feet wide and 208 feet long near the town of Kilgore in the .East Texas oil field in Gregg County. The permit was granted as an exception to rule 37 to prevent confiscation, over the protests of adjacent lease owners. The Magnolia, owner of a 44.65-acre lease adjoining on the east the 54-acre tract out of which the .5-acre .tract here involved was carved, brought this suit…