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RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS v. WILLIAMS

No. 10747.

336 S.W.2d 800 (1960)

RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS et al., Appellants, v. C. Murel WILLIAMS, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 1960.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied June 15, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., James N. Ludlum, First Asst. Atty. Gen., John Wildenthal, Jr., and Linward Shivers, Asst. Attys. Gen., for R. R. Comm. of Texas.

Henry M. Betts, Thomas Black, Austin, for Southern Natural Gas Co.

Verne Maxwell, Dallas, Frank Douglass, Austin, for American Petrofina Co. of Texas, Black & Stayton, Austin, Powell, Rauhut, McGinnis, Reavley & Lochridge, Austin, of counsel.

Wilson, Spivey & Steger, Tyler, Wallace H. Scott, Austin, and McKay & Avery, Austin, for Reynolds Oil Co.

Looney, Clark, Mathews, Thomas & Harris, James H. Keahey, Austin, for appellee.

HUGHES, Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case. The Railroad Commission of Texas refused appellee, C. Murel Williams, a permit to drill a well for oil and gas on a tract of land containing 1.65 acres in the Joaquin field in Shelby County. The well applied for was a first well and was sought as an exception to spacing Rule 37 to prevent the confiscation of property. Following the refusal by the Commission, appellee filed suit in the court below to compel the Commission, in...

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