Legal Opinion
Application of R. Olsen Oil Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided December 18, 1951No. 34272PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDavison, J.
This is an appeal from an order of the Corporation Commission denying the application of R. Olsen Oil Company to reduce, from 160 acres to 40 acres, the size of a drilling unit in a certain gas field in Major county, Oklahoma. It grows out of a controversy between the Olsen Company on the one hand and Fordee Rhoades Oil Company and Mabee Petroleum Company on the other.
In the early part of 1947, the Olsen Company drilled a producing oil and gas well upon a 120-acre tract of land which it held under oil and gas lease and which comprised a quarter section of land exclusive of the southeast 40…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Peppers Refining Co. v. Corporation CommissionSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1947
- Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. StateSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1927
3Cited by5 opinions
- Dodds v. WardSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1966
- Finley Diggs v. Cities Service Oil CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1957
- Meredith v. Corporation CommissionSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1961
- Application of Champlin Refining CompanySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1956
- Application of R. Olsen Oil Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1951