Railroad Commission v. Shell Oil Co.

This is a direct appeal from an order entered March 31, 1947, by the 126 District Court of Travis County restraining the Railroad Commission of Texas and its members, who are appellants here, from enforcing, until final determination of this suit, a Commission order dated March 17, 1947, effective April 1, 1947, by which the plaintiffs, appellees here, would have been prohibited from producing either oil 'or gas from their wells in the Sceligson Field in Southwest Texas until measures were taken to devote gas employed to produce the oil to one or more of the following uses: (a) Light or fuel;…