Railroad Commission v. Burnham

BLAIR, Justice.

Appellee, G. H. Burnham, instituted this proceeding against appellants, the Railroad Commission and its members, seeking to enjoin them from enforcing, as against a certain product of crude petroleum oil, about 70,000 barrels of fuel oil owned by appellee, the provisions of an order of the Commission, dated December 5, 1934, and effective December 10, 1934, which required, among other things, that “every person owning or possessing” such product on the effective date of the order, who desired to transport same, to file an inventory containing certain information, and to file an…