SINCLAIR OIL & GAS COMPANY v. CORPORATION COMMISSION

Nos. 39667-39669.

378 P.2d 847 (1963)

SINCLAIR OIL & GAS COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs in Error, v. CORPORATION COMMISSION of Oklahoma, Defendant in Error (two cases). PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Plaintiff in Error, v. CORPORATION COMMISSION of Oklahoma, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

February 5, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.A. Davidson, and James H. McGowan, Tulsa, for Sinclair Oil & Gas Co.

Howard H. Harris, William J. Legg, Tulsa, for The Ohio Oil Co.

George H. Bowen, William C. Phelps, John O. Dean, and O.L. Peck, Jr., Tulsa, for Sun Oil Co.

M. Darwin Kirk, John F. Curran, and Wm. R. Loar, Tulsa, for Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co.

Lupardus, Holliman & Huffman, by Robert A. Huffman, Tulsa, for Schermerhorn Oil Corp. and Kenwood Oil Co.

James B. Diggs, Tulsa, Edwin S. Hurst, Houston, Tex., and Comet C. Johns, Tulsa, for Gulf Oil Corp.

H.B. Watson, Jr., Tulsa, for Union Oil Co. of Calif.

Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, by C.E. Bryson, Houston, Tex., W.M. Allison, Denver, Colo., and Lyle V. Smith, Oklahoma City, for The Pure Oil Company.

Norton Standeven, and T. Murray Robinson, Oklahoma City, for Pan American Petroleum Corp., plaintiff in error.

Ferrill Rogers, John Buckingham, and L.D. Hoyt, and Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., for Corporation Commission, defendant in error.

Charles L. Orr, Oklahoma City, amicus curiae.


BLACKBIRD, Chief Justice.

These three appeals, consolidated for the purpose of briefing and decision, are from orders the Corporation Commission (hereinafter referred to merely as the "Commission") entered in its consolidated causes CD13834 and CD14026, respectively.

Cause CD13834 was instituted in 1960 upon the filing, by the late Massena B. Murray, Oklahoma's then Director of Conservation, of his application for...

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