O'Meara v. Union Oil Co. of California

PONDER, Justice.

The plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment of the lower court maintaining exceptions of no right and no cause of action and dismissing their suit.

The record in this case, comprising the plaintiffs’ petition, exceptions and plea interposed by the defendants, and the evidence introduced thereunder discloses that the plaintiffs, in a letter dated April 11, 1947, requested the commissioner of conservation to call a public hearing under the provisions of Act 157 of 1940 to determine if there had been an excess production of the legal allowable oil and gas from any of the wells of…