Railroad Commission v. Royal Petroleum Corp.

HALL, Chief Justice.

The appellee corporation sued the Railroad Commission and other parties (such other parties being later dismissed) in the nature of an appeal from an order of the Railroad Commission refusing appellee a permit to drill well No. 2 on a tract of 4.06 acres in the Juan Ximines survey in Rusk county.

It alleged that in 1930 it purchased a leasehold interest covering 5 acres of land, but because of an. outstanding one-sixth undivided interest, appellee was required to release .87 acre.to the outstanding one-sixth owner, leaving s.ppellee the owner of 4.06 acres. That it had…