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RAILROAD COMMISSION v. SHELL OIL COMPANY

No. A-9759.

380 S.W.2d 556 (1964)

RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Petitioners, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 15, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Austin, Joseph Trimble and Linward Shivers, Asst. Attys. Gen., for Railroad Commission and others.

Walter R. Koch, Hart & Hart, Houghton Brownlee, Jr., Austin, for C. A. Green & R. J. McMurrey.

R. H. Whilden and James R. Connor, Houston, Dan Moody, Jr., Powell, Rauhut, McGinnis, Reavley & Lochridge, Frank Douglass, Austin, with above firm, Robert J. Stanton and H. D. Bushnell, Tulsa, Okl., C. F. Heidrick and E. M. Cage, Dallas, for Shell Oil Co. and others.

CULVER, Justice.

This suit was brought by Shell Oil Company, Amerada Petroleum Corporation, and Sun Oil Company, challenging the validity of an order of the Railroad Commission prorating the production in four separate oil reservoirs on the Quitman structure in Wood County on the basis of 50% per well and 50% on the acreage assigned to the well. The owners of two separate tracts, C. A. Green and R. J. McMurrey, intervened seeking to have the Commission's order upheld...

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