Holmes v. Corporation Commission

WILLIAMS, Justice:

This is an appeal by C. W. Holmes and Earl B. Mitchell, Jr., Executor of the Estate of John R. Wilver, Deceased, protestants below, from an order of this State’s Corporation Commission pooling the separately owned mineral estates, adjudicating the rights of participation in production and other correlative rights, and authorizing the drilling of a gas well by Viersen and Cochran, applicant below, to the common source of supply in a drilling unit in Garfield County, Oklahoma. The parties will be referred to as protestant (s), applicant and the Commission.

In November, 1965,…