Harrington v. Railroad Commission

CALVERT, Chief Justice.

The three cases to be decided were tried together in the trial court and were submitted jointly in this court on direct appeal. The cases originated as suits in the nature of appeals to the district court by Harrington from orders of the Railroad Commission of Texas.

Harrington is one of the oil operators caught up in the East Texas “slant-hole” dragnet. Two wells drilled by him as lessee on tracts of 1.1 and 5.25 acres in 1948, and a third well drilled on a tract of 34.7 acres in 1949 in which he acquired an interest in 1960, were found by directional survey in 1962 to…