Pickens v. Ryan Consol. Petroleum Corp.

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case on appeal from orders of the Railroad Commission granting a permit to appellants Pickens and Cof-field to drill well No. 1 on their lots Nos. 10’ and 11 in Block 23, Hawkins Townsite, Wood County, Texas, in the Hawkins Oil Field, and denying a permit to Ryan Consolidated Petroleum Corporation to drill a well on their adjacent lots 12 and 13. The Humble Oil Refining Company intervened as co-plaintiff with Ryan in attacking the Pickens permit, and with the Railroad Commission in defending the denial of the Ryan *152application, and remaining neutral as…