LILLY v. CONSERVATION COMMISSIONER OF LOUISIANA

No. 191.

29 F.Supp. 892 (1939)

LILLY v. CONSERVATION COMMISSIONER OF LOUISIANA.

District Court, E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

October 25, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Land, Jr., of New Orleans, La., Walter P. Bauer, of Houston, Tex., and Edward M. Heath, of New Orleans, La., for complainant.

James O'Connor and A. P. Miceli, both of New Orleans, La., LeDoux Provosty, of Alexandria, La., and George M. Wallace, of Baton Rouge, La., for respondent.

R. E. Hardwicke, of Fort Worth, Tex., for intervenors.

Before HOLMES, Circuit Judge, and DAWKINS and BORAH, District Judges.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

Complainant is a resident and citizen of the State of Texas and seeks to enjoin the Conservation Commissioner of the State of Louisiana from enforcing a ruling under provisions of South Louisiana Order No. 3 dealing with the Eola oil field in the Parish of Avoyelles.

He first assailed the constitutionality of Act 225 of the Legislature of 1936, in its application to this case, but at the hearing for preliminary injunction, requested...

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