Mobil Oil Corp. v. Kansas Corporation Commission

I must respectfully dissent from the majority opinion for the reasons hereafter stated and upon the philosophy expressed in my dissent to Williams v. City of Wichita, 190 Kan. 317, 341, 374 P.2d 578 (1962). The Supreme Court today authorizes the State Corporation Commission (Commission) to exercise jurisdiction under the Gas Conservation Act, K.S.A. 55-701 et seq., which confers no statutory authority, to compel the owners of an undivided mineral interest to join in unit operation of an oil and gas lease.

Nowhere in the majority opinion are we told the legal basis upon which the Commission…