RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS v. ROWAN OIL CO.

Nos. A-4156 to A-4160.

259 S.W.2d 173 (1953)

RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS et al. v. ROWAN OIL CO. et al. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS et al. v. HARVEY et al. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS et al. v. PLYMOUTH OIL CO. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS et al. v. REPUBLIC NATURAL GAS CO. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS et al. v. BLACKWOOD & NICHOLS CO.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Motions to Clarify for Modification and for Rehearing Denied June 30, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. A-4156:

John Ben Shepperd, Atty. Gen., and C. K. Richards and Dean J. Capp, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants Railroad Commission of Texas and others.

Black & Stayton, John W. Stayton, Austin, and Carl W. Jones, Midland, for appellant Phillips Petroleum Co.

Tilley, Hyder & Law, Elton M. Hyder, Jr., Fort Worth, for appellees Rowan Oil Co. and others.

Weeks & Hankerson, W. F. Weeks, Tyler, for appellee British-American Oil Producing Co.

Dan Moody, Austin, and Paxton Howard and Richard L. Hughston, Midland, for appellees Magnolia Petroleum Co. and Shell Oil Co.

George Grant, San Antonio, for appellees Hewgley Drilling Co. and others.

W. H. Slay, Fort Worth, for appellee Jas. H. Snowden.

Stubbeman, McRae & Sealy, Tom Sealy, Midland, for appellees, Ashland Oil & Refining Co. and others.

Robert T. Donahue, Austin, for appellee Cabot Carbon Co.

Willis & McEntire, Rex McEntire, Fort Worth, for appellees Mascho Oil Co. and others.

W. B. Weaver, Fort Worth, for Cities Service Oil Co.

Robertson, Jackson, Payne, Lancaster & Walker, A. W. Walker, Jr., Dallas, for appellees Vasser & Howard.

Hutcheson, Taliaferro & Hutcheson, Thad T. Hutcheson, Houston, and Hardy Hollers, Austin, for appellees Lloyd H. Smith and others.

No. A-4157:

John Ben Shepperd, Atty. Gen., and C. K. Richards and Dean J. Capp, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants Railroad Commission of Texas and others.

Small, Small & Craig, C. C. Small, Austin, for appellant Standard Oil Co. of Ohio.

McGown, Godfrey, Logan & Decker, Harry L. Logan, Jr., Fort Worth, for appellant Ted Weiner.

Perkins, German, Mims & Bell, W. P. Z. German, Jr., and Kelly Bell, Midland, for appellee Arthur Harvey.

Powell, Wirtz & Rauhut and Robert C. McGinnis, Austin, for appellees Tide Water Associated Oil Co. and others.

Dan Moody, Austin, for appellee Magnolia Petroleum Co.

Stubbeman, McRae & Sealy, Tom Sealy, Midland, Crenshaw, Scott & DeGeurin, Wallace H. Scott, Jr., Austin for appellees Union Oil Co. of California and others.

David W. Stephens and John H. Bevan, Jr., Fort Worth, and Stanley Hornsby, Austin, for appellee Gulf Oil Corp.

John C. Phillips, Austin, for appellee Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.

Nos. A-4158 to A-4160:

John Ben Shepperd, Atty. Gen., and C. K. Richards and Dean J. Capp, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants.

Graves, Dougherty & Greenhill, Austin, for appellees.


Motions to Clarify for Modification and for Rehearing Denied in Nos. 4156-4157, June 30, 1953.

WILSON, Justice.

This case reaches us as a direct appeal from the judgment of a trial court upon the validity of a Railroad Commission order.

The Spraberry oil trend stretches through five West Texas counties. The Commission by order established the entire trend as one field for administrative purposes. Oil is produced along with a great volume of casinghead...

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