Coloma Oil & Gas Corporation v. Railroad Commission

SMITH, JUSTICE,

dissenting.

I respectfully dissent. I cannot accept the theory adopted by the majority in the case of Railroad Commission v. C. Murel Williams, 163 Tex. 370, 356 S.W. 2d 131, which completely destroyed the effect of the holdings in many Texas cases, including Halbouty v. Darsey, Foster v. Railroad Commission, and Atlantic Refining Company v. Railroad Commission. Those cases stand for the proposition that the owner of an involuntarily segregated tract is entitled to drill at least one well on his tract, however small the tract may be. We do not have a situation where just a…