PICKENS v. RAILROAD COMMISSION

No. A-10116.

387 S.W.2d 35 (1965)

W. L. PICKENS et al., Appellants, v. RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 10, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Prentice Wilson, Roach & Robertson, Dallas, Fred Erisman, Longview, J. W. Hassell, Jr., Dallas, for appellants.

Waggoner Carr, Austin, Atty. Gen., Linward Shivers, Joseph Trimble, Asst. Attys. Gen., Powell, Rauhut, McGinnis, Reaveley & Lochridge, B. D. St. Clair, Austin, Robert B. Payne, Dallas, R. J. Stanton and H. D. Bushnell, Tulsa, Okl., Robert F. LeBlanc, Gentry Lee, C. C. Cammack, Bartlesville, Okl., Alfred O. Holl, William P. Gibson and Wallace G. Malone, Dallas, for appellees.


GREENHILL, Justice.

The main question here is the validity of the order of the Texas Railroad Commission prorating the production allowable of oil from the Fairway (James Lime) Field in Anderson and Henderson Counties, Texas. The order fixed the rate at which the various owners of the oil could produce. The district court found the order to be reasonably supported by substantial evidence and upheld it. W. L. Pickens and...

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