Gulf Oil Corporation v. Wood

McCLENDON, Chief Justice.

This is a rule 37 case. The suit was by the Gulf (Gulf Oil Corporation, owner of a contiguous oil lease, appellant) to set aside an order of the Commission granting a permit to drill a third well (No. 4) upon a 3.65-acre tract in the East Texas oil field. The permit was granted as an exception to rule 37 “to prevent confiscation of property.” The appeal is from an interlocutory order denying a temporary injunction sought to restrain drilling the well and producing oil therefrom pending trial upon the merits.

The entire record of the hearing before the Commission was…