Railroad Commission v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Co.

BAUGH, Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case. The permit involved was to operate a third well already drilled on a 3.77-acre tract in the fairway of the East Texas field in Gregg County, which tract was owned and leased by a colored Baptist Church, variously desig-natéd, but hereinafter referred to as the church. The tract of land was approximately square in dimensions. 1.3 acres, approximately square, in the northeast corner of said tract, was used as a cemetery, leaving the other church property in the form of an L. The original lease made by the church in 1931 did not include the cemetery. This…