Flannery v. State

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is a suit by the State and Railroad Commission against L. S. Flannery to recover statutory penalties for alleged violations of orders of the Railroad Commission for the prevention of “waste,” which orders limit the daily production of crude petroleum oil wells in the East Texas Oil Field. Flannery owned and operated two oil wells in the field. It was found that upon eight different days in August, 1933, he had produced oil in excess of the amount which he could have produced lawfully under the order in force and effect on said dates. Penalties of $500 for each day were…