Railroad Commission v. Shell Oil Company

PHILLIPS, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Railroad Commission and certain intervenors from the judgment of the district court cancelling an allocation formula contained in the field rules 1 promulgated by the Commission for four oil fields in Wood County, Texas, namely, the Southeast Quitman (Kirkland), the Southeast Quitman (Rodessa), the Southeast Quitman Goldsmith (Kirkland) and the Southeast Quitman Goldsmith (Ro-dessa) fields. The appellees, plaintiffs below, are Shell Oil Company, Amerada Petroleum Corporation and Sun Oil Company.: Appellees brought suit under Section 8 of Article…