Matzen v. State Corporation Commission

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Robb, J.:

This is an appeal by the state corporation commission and the intervenor from the trial court’s judgment reversing, vacating, and setting aside a previous order by the commission unitizing and pooling plaintiff’s 160 acres of land with three other quarter sections which were neither contiguous nor adjoining to plaintiff’s land nor with each other. The lands so unitized by the commission’s order were also attributed to one of five wells drilled by the intervenor, as producer.

The intervenor filed an application seeking allowables for five wells…