HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO. v. CARR

No. 9979.

243 S.W.2d 709 (1951)

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO. et al. v. CARR et al.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied November 21, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. H. Whilden, Houston, Dan Moody, and J. B. Robertson, all of Austin, for Shell Oil Co.

Rex G. Baker, Nelson Jones, W. J. Merrill, and Dillard Baker, all of Houston and Powell, Wirtz & Rauhut and J. A. Rauhut, all of Austin, for Humble Oil & Refining Co.

Price Daniel, Atty. Gen., and Charles E. Crenshaw, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Railroad Commission of Texas.

Blair & Randle and M. B. Blair, Austin, for A. P. Carr, Trustee.


GRAY, Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case, and is the third appeal involving the validity of permits to drill a well on the .67-acre tract of land under consideration here. The opinions in the two prior appeals will be later noticed.

Appellants have appealed from a judgment sustaining a permit to drill a well on a .67-acre tract of land in Gregg County. Actually, the permit is to reopen and produce oil from a well already drilled on the tract. The permit in question...

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