Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Railroad Commission

GRAY, Justice.

This a Rule 37 case. Appellants have appealed from a judgment sustaining a permit granted to appellee, Selwyn S. Smith, authorizing production of a well in the Yates Oil Field in Pecos County. The well is located on a .64 acre tract of land, 20.7 feet wide, north and south, and 1320 feet long, east and west. The well was drilled under a permit considered and held invalid by this Court in Shell Oil Co. v. Railroad Commission, 247 S.W.2d 448, error ref. In that case we held the .64 acre tract to be- a voluntary subdivision within the meaning of the applicable spacing rules and…