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BROWN v. HITCHCOCK

Nos. 9914, 9915.

235 S.W.2d 478 (1950)

BROWN et al. v. HITCHCOCK et al. BROWN et al. v. WALLACE et al.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Powell, Wirtz & Rauhut, by A. J. Wirtz and J. A. Rauhut, of Austin, for appellant.

Price Daniel, Atty. Gen., and Durwood M. Goolsby and Charles E. Crenshaw, Asst. Attys. Gen., for Railroad Commission.

Wallace H. Scott, Jr., of Austin, for John H. Cochran, C. M. Hitchcock, and L. A. Wallace.

Ralph W. Yarborough, of Austin, for Mrs. I. M. Lemon, trustee.

GRAY, Justice.

These are Rule 37 cases and involve an application of the state-wide spacing rule to fee subdivisions made after the discovery of oil in the Garza field in Garza County. They are companion cases and were briefed and argued as such. The points here presented in the two causes are identical, the evidence, in all material respects, is the same, and for those reasons we have considered the two causes together and here dispose of each by this one opinion...

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