Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Trapp

BAUGH, Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case. Suit was by the Humble to cancel a permit granted by the Railroad Commission to G. T. Blankenship to drill a second well on a 2.08-acre tract of land located in the west edge of the fairway of the East Texas oil field in Gregg County; and to enjoin production from said well which had been drilled thereunder. The permit, dated February 28, 1941, was granted by Commissioners Thompson and Sadler, Culberson dissenting, on the recited grounds to prevent confiscation and waste. Trapp was made a party to the suit as owner of a half interest in the lease. The…