Skipper-Bivens Oil Co. v. State

McClendon, chief justice.

Appeal (by writ of error) from a judgment in favor of the State, confiscating 10,000 barrels of oil alleged and found to be “illegal,” in that it was produced in violation of the conservation laws of the State, and the rules of the Railroad Commission promulgated thereunder.

The finding that the oil was illegal is not attacked. The only questions urged are that the act under which the suit was brought, H.B. 581, Acts 44th Leg. Reg.Sess. c. 246, Vernon’s Ann.Cjv.St., art. 6066a, § 10, is unconstitutional in so far as applied to the oil' in question on two grounds,…