Palmer Oil Corp. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.

At the outset I would emphasize the thought that *559it is too difficult to undertake to determine the constitutionality of the compulsory Unitization Act without in any manner discussing or considering the impact on this legislation of the positive provision therein which grants the unqualified veto power for sixty days to 15 per cent of the lease owners by acreage.

By that provision, considered in its necessary connection with other provisions, the act speaks for itself and thereby announces, either that it is not a necessary and proper exercise of the police power for conservation, or that it…