RAILROAD COMMISSION v. AMERICAN TRADING & PRO. CORP.

No. 10663.

323 S.W.2d 474 (1959)

RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Appellants, v. AMERICAN TRADING AND PRODUCTION CORPORATION, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied April 22, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., James N. Ludlum, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Houghton Brownlee, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Rayburn L. Foster, Harry D. Turner, Bartlesville, Okl., Carl W. Jones, Midland, Wallace H. Scott, Jr., Austin, Raymond A. Lynch, Midland, for appellants.

Frank C. Ashby, Midland, Harry S. Pollard, Austin, for appellee.


HUGHES, Justice.

Appellee American Trading and Production Corporation, hereinafter called American, sued the Railroad Commission of Texas and its members, in the nature of a statutory appeal, to vacate an order of the Commission denying American's application for a permit to drill a well on a 160 acre tract, being the NW/4 of Section 29, Blk. 38, Township 2 South, T. & P. Ry. Co. Survey, in Midland County. The tract is in the Azalea (Strawn) gas field in such...

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