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HARRINGTON v. RAILROAD COMMISSION

Nos. A-9702 to A-9704.

375 S.W.2d 892 (1964)

H. M. HARRINGTON, Jr., Appellant, v. RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Appellees (three cases).

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 18, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. K. Richards, Houghton Brownlee, Jr., Austin, for appellant.

Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen., Austin, Joseph Trimble, Asst. Atty. Gen., Powell, Rauhut, McGinnis, Reavley & Lochridge, Frank Douglass, Austin, with above firm. J. K. Smith, Fort Worth, for appellees.

CALVERT, Chief Justice.

The three cases to be decided were tried together in the trial court and were submitted jointly in this court on direct appeal. The cases originated as suits in the nature of appeals to the district court by Harrington from orders of the Railroad Commission of Texas.

Harrington is one of the oil operators caught up in the East Texas "slant-hole" dragnet. Two wells drilled by him as lessee on tracts of 1.1 and 5.25 acres in 1948, and...

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