State Oil & Gas Board v. Superior Oil Co.

On August 30, 1945, the State Oil and Gas Board, acting under Sections 6132-6179, Code 1942, made an order, entered on its minutes, "that every gas well or gas condensate must be located on 320 surface contiguous acres". On or about July 15, 1946, appellees, who were, and are, interested parties within the statute, filed a petition with the Oil and Gas Board requesting a public hearing and praying that as to the Gwinville field, the only field concerned in the case now before us, the order heretofore mentioned should be modified so as to make the spacing in the Gwinville field 640 contiguous…