Tide Water Oil Co. v. Railroad Commission

BAUGH, Justice.

The Tide Water Oil Company brought this suit against the Railroad Commission, H. M. Hale, Yandell Rogers, and the Overton Refining Company in the nature of an appeal from an. order of the Railroad Commission granting to. H. M. Hale a permit to drill three oil wells on two strips of land in Rusk county, Tex., aggregating in area about 3 acres. The grounds of attack on the validity of the Commission’s order were: (1) That said lands were included in, and were a part of, a 49-aere tract and an 84-acre tract theretofore leased by Hale to the Tide Water Oil Company, and were under…