Shell Oil Co. v. Trapp

BLAIR, Justice.

Rule 37 case. The Commission granted appellee M. E. Trapp’s application to drill a second well on a tract of land in the Alexander-McNally Survey, Gregg County, Texas, which according to the map attached contained 1.77 acres. The application for the first well on the tract showed that it contained 1.25 acres, but in fixing the allowable of oil therefrom the Commission considered it as containing 3 acres. The second well was granted on the “1.77 acres or 3 acres” tract, and “to prevent waste and to prevent confiscation” of oil. Appellants Shell Oil Company and Gulf Oil…