Burford v. Sun Oil Co.

McClendon, chief justice.

Rule 37 case. The appeal is from a final judgment cancelling two orders of the Commission granting permits to drill four wells on a long (about 2131 feet, north-south), narrow (about 49 feet, east-*308west) tract of 2.33 acres in the East Texas Oil Field, as exceptions to the spacing rule; but providing, however, that the judgment was “without prejudice to a new application” to the Commission to drill one well on tract. The suit was by the oil companies, Sun (Sun Oil Company) and Magnolia (Magnolia Petroleum Company), owners of leases located respectively west and east of…