SHELL OIL COMPANY v. DAVIDOR & DAVIDOR

No. 37323.

315 P.2d 259 (1957)

SHELL OIL COMPANY, a Corporation, Plaintiff in Error, v. DAVIDOR & DAVIDOR, Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma, and the State of Oklahoma, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Amended September 9, 1957.

Rehearing Denied September 10, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse M. Davis and Gordon Watts, Tulsa, for plaintiff in error.

T. Murray Robinson, Leon Shipp, Oklahoma City, for Davidor & Davidor.

Floyd Green, Oklahoma City, for Corporation Commission of Oklahoma.


BLACKBIRD, Justice.

In an area of Woods County known as the Teagarden Field, Davidor & Davidor, oil and gas lessees of a part thereof, drilled a well discovering natural gas and gas distillate production in a formation called the Mississippi Lime, or Limestone, encountered in said well at a depth of 5,750 feet. Thereafter, they applied to this State's Corporation Commission,...

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