Cook Drilling Co. v. Gulf Oil Corp.

BAUGH, Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case. Appeal is by the Railroad Commission and the permittee from a judgment of the District Court setting aside a permit granted by the Commission to Cook Drilling Company to drill an eleventh well near the northwest comer of its 45-acre lease in Rusk County. The tract in question runs north and south, is 870 feet wide, its west boundary 2570 feet long and its east boundary 1901 feet long. The well involved was authorized to be drilled under an exception to Rule 37, in the northwest corner of this tract, 150 feet from its west line, 220 feet from its north…