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RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS v. RICHARDS

No. 10778.

336 S.W.2d 449 (1960)

RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS et al., Appellants, v. M. D. RICHARDS, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied June 22, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., James N. Ludlum, First Asst. Atty. Gen., John Wildenthal, Jr., Linward Shivers, Asst. Attys. Gen., Powell, Rauhut, McGinnis, Reavley & Lochridge, Frank Douglass, Austin, for appellants.

Black & Stayton, Austin, for appellee.

HUGHES, Justice.

This is a Rule 37 case. The Railroad Commission of Texas denied M. D. Richards, appellee, a permit to drill a well for oil and gas on his two-acre Roger Baird lease in the Poesta Creek field in Bee County. Richards appealed to the Court below which, after trial, set aside the order of the Commission and authorized the well to be drilled upon the two-acre tract at a point to be designated by the Commission...

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