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RAILROAD COMMISSION v. WILLIAMS

No. A-7961.

356 S.W.2d 131 (1961)

RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Petitioner, v. C. Murel WILLIAMS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Concurring Opinion April 11, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., Houghton Brownlee, Jr., Charles D. Cabiniss, Ben Harrison, Linward Shivers, Asst. Attys. Gen., for Railroad Commission of Texas, petitioner.

Verne Maxwell, Dallas, Powell, Rauhut, McGinnis, Reavley & Lochridge and Frank Douglass, Austin, with above firm, for American Petrofina Co. of Texas, petitioner.

Henry Betts, Black & Stayton, Thomas Black of the firm, Austin, for Southern Natural Gas Co., petitioner.

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

Clark, Mathews, Thomas, Harris & Denius and James H. Keahey, Austin, with above firm, for C. Murel Williams, respondent.

GREENHILL, Justice.

Murel Williams here seeks a permit to drill a gas well on a 1.65-acre tract. The spacing pattern fixed by the Texas Railroad Commission for the drilling of gas wells in this field in Shelby County, Texas, is one well to each 640 acres. Williams seeks the permit to drill on the 1.65-acre tract in order to prevent confiscation of property under an exception to Rule 37 (the spacing rule) of the Railroad Commission. He did not allege or prove that...

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