Traverse Corporation v. Latimer

Sprouse, Justice:

The petitioner in this original proceeding in mandamus is Traverse Corporation, an oil and gas exploration and development concern, which claims a right to drill oil and gas wells in the Canaan Valley State Park. It seeks a writ alternatively requiring the respondents, Ira S. Lati-mer, Jr., Director of the Department of Natural Resources, Robert L. Dodd, Deputy Director of the Oil and Gas Division of the Department of Mines, and Thomas E. Huzzey, Commissioner of the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, to take appropriate action to grant the petitioner a permit to drill a gas…