Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Bennett

BAUGH, Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case. The land involved is a portion of the Galveston Houston Electric Railway Company Right of Way in Galveston County. F. W. Bennett, D. P. Kenyon, and W. E. McKinney acquired a lease on about 32.4 acres of such right of way, 100 feet wide, running northwest and southeast at the point in question. They had drilled, under permit granted by the Railroad Commission, one well on said tract, had been granted a permit on December 21, 1937, for a second well on same approximately 4,200 feet southeast from the first, which they had not drilled; and on July 27, 1938,…