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DOBSON v. ARKANSAS OIL & GAS COMMISSION

No. 4-9312.

235 S.W.2d 33 (1950)

DOBSON et al. v. ARKANSAS OIL & GAS COMMISSION et al.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied January 22, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold & Arnold, Texarkana, for appellant.

Ike Murry, Atty. Gen., Francis W. Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Forrest M. Darrough and Joseph A. Gill, Tulsa, Okl., Davis & Allen, El Dorado, Gaughan, McClellan & Gaughan, Camden, for appellee.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

The basic question in this case is whether our statutes empower the Oil and Gas Commission to compel the unitization of an entire oil and gas field. An area is said to be unitized when various ownerships are treated as a unit in the production of oil and gas. In the usual case the owners of several small contiguous tracts, totaling perhaps forty acres, agree that a single well shall be drilled in the unitized area and that all the owners...

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