British American Oil Producing Co. v. Corporation Commission

This appeal is prosecuted by the British American Oil Producing Company from an order of the Corporation Commission of the state of Oklahoma denying to it an “adjusting retroactive allowable” on its Mary Green well No. 1, which was the discovery well in the Mansion area of the Oklahoma City field.

This well was completed on October 1, 1935, but was shut in on that date in order to install s'afety devices. On October 2nd it was opened and produced 2,000 barrels of oil in ten hours and 25 minutes. The test, while demonstrating the possibilities of the well as a producer and though taken ■under…