PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY v. MECOM

No. 14659.

395 S.W.2d 828 (1965)

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, Appellant, v. John W. MECOM, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.

Rehearing Denied November 18, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. J. Zeman, Lloyd G. Minter, Bartlesville, Okl., E. H. Brown, Marion R. Froehlich, Houston, for appellant.

Cecil N. Cook, W. C. Perry, Louis Paine, Jr., Houston, Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, of counsel, for appellee.


COLEMAN, Justice.

By this action appellant sought a judgment requiring appellee to abandon and plug a producing gas well located on leases owned by appellee within the City of Hitchcock, Texas. Essentially it is appellant's theory that the drilling of a producing gas well by appellant, under a permit issued by the city, on a block created by a comprehensive drilling ordinance enacted by the city, which limited to one the number of wells which could be drilled on each...

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