Davenport v. Railroad Commission

BLAIR, Justice.

Under the provisions of section 9 of H. B. No. 581, c. 246, Acts 44th Leg. (1935) p. 631 (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 6066a, § 9), appellants made application for a “tender” to move 26,565 barrels of oil, which they had picked up in traps from the surface waters of certain creeks; the oil being abandoned, waste, and fugitive oil flowing on the surface waters of the creeks, and now held in pits adjacent to the streams, in Gregg county, Tex. The agent of the commission refused the application for tender, making the following notation on the copy of the application returned to…