Manziel v. Railroad Commission

McCLENDON, Chief Justice.

Rule 37 case. The appeal is from a final judgment in a suit seeking to set aside an order of the Commission (Railroad Commission of Texas), which denied an application of Manziel for a permit to drill an oil well on lot 13 of the Resse Addition to the town of Hawkins, as an exception to Spacing Rule 37. The sole issue in the case is whether the ownership of lot 13 was segregated from lots 11 and 12 in said addition (upon which there was already an oil well) subsequently to the severance of the mineral title; which question turns upon whether the fee to a 20 foot strip…