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SIMS v. MECHEM

No. 7206.

382 P.2d 183 (1963)

72 N.M. 186

Amanda E. SIMS and George W. Sims, PetitionerS-Appellants, v. Hon. Edwin L. MECHEM, Chairman, E.S. (Johnny) Walker, Member, A.L. Porter, Jr., Member, Secretary of the Oil Conservation Commission of the State of New Mexico, Olsen Oils, Inc., and Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, Successor to Olsen Oils, Inc., Respondents-Appellees.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

May 27, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.N. Morris, Foster Windham, Carlsbad, for appellants.

Richard S. Morris, James M. Durrett, Jr., Santa Fe, for N.M. Oil Conservation Commission.

Campbell & Russell, Roswell, Girand, Cowan & Reese, Hobbs, for Olsen Oils, Inc. and Texas and Pacific Coal & Oil Co.

COMPTON, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves Order No. R-1310 of the Oil Conservation Commission, the validity of which is challenged here on jurisdictional grounds.

Reviewing the record, in August, 1955, the commission issued Order No. R-677 pooling contiguous acreage in Section 25, Township 22 South, Range 37 East, N.M.P.M., Lea County, consisting of 40 acres in the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and 120 acres in the northeast quarter of the...

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