Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. v. Railroad Commission

McClendon, chief justice.

Appeal from a judgment in favor of defendants below (appellees) in a suit to set aside an order of the Railroad Commission granting to appellee Jackson a permit to drill an oil well upon a .13-acre tract in the East Texas oil field as an exception to Spacing Rule 37, in order “to prevent confiscation of property.”

The case may be more readily understood by reference to the following map: the points A, B, C, D. The points A, E, F, D, or B, E, F, C (the controversy as to which is unimportant in our view of the case), describe what we shall refer to as the “Church tract.”…