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COLOMA OIL & GAS CORPORATION v. RAILROAD COMMISSION

No. A-8625.

358 S.W.2d 566 (1962)

COLOMA OIL & GAS CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 11, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wood & Boykin, Corpus Christi, for petitioner.

Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., Houghton Brownlee, Jr., Linward Shivers, and B. H. Timmins, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Perkins, Floyd, Davis & Oden, Alice, for respondents.

STEAKLEY, Justice.

This case reaches us in an exceptional status and under unusual circumstances; in view of its disposition the facts will be noted only briefly.

Respondent Railroad Commission granted Respondent Appell Petroleum Corporation a permit to drill a first well on the tract in question as an exception to Rule 37. The recited basis for the permit to drill was to prevent waste and confiscation. Petitioner...

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