RAILROAD COMMISSION v. ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA

No. A-9760.

380 S.W.2d 599 (1964)

RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Petitioners, v. ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 15, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

William H. Darden, Corpus Christi, Hart & Hart, Austin, William E. York, McAllen, for Coastal States Gas Producing Co., and others.

Wallace H. Scott, Jr., Houghton Brownlee, Jr., Austin, for Tex-Star Oil & Gas Corp'n and others.

Harry S. Pollard, Austin, Lee Jones, Jr., San Antonio, for Karankawa Producing Co., and others.

Miller B. Walker, Jr., Nick C. Nichols, Charles F. Cockrell, Jr., Levert J. Able, Houston, for Woods Exploration & Producing Co. and others.

Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Raybourne Thompson and James E. Allison, Jr., Houston, with above firm Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius & Winters, James H. Keahey, Austin, with above firm. Charles F. Heidrick and Edwin M. Cage, Dallas, for Aluminum Co. of America and others.


CULVER, Justice.

Respondents, Aluminum Company of America, Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, Carl E. Siegesmund, and Sun Oil Company, (Alcoa et al.), in this suit attack and seek to set aside the Railroad Commission's order of April 24, 1961, allocating the allowable production of oil and gas in the Appling Field in Calhoun and Jackson Counties. This order prorates the production of gas on the basis of 1/3 per well and 2/3 on the acreage assigned to the well and...

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