AMERADA PETROLEUM CORP. v. RAILROAD COMMISSION

No. 11327.

395 S.W.2d 403 (1965)

AMERADA PETROLEUM CORPORATION et al., Appellants, v. RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Miller, Thomas W. Lynch, Tulsa, Okl., Kenneth C. Minter, Houston, McGinnis, Lochridge, Kilgore, Hunter & Wilson, B. D. St. Clair, Frank Douglass, Austin, for appellant.

Waggoner Carr, Atty., Gen., Hawthorne Phillips, 1st Asst. Atty. Gen., T. B. Wright, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Arthur Sandlin, Linward Shivers, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, McLemore & McLemore, B. Reagan McLemore, Longview Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius & Winters, James H. Keahey, Austin, for appellee.


ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a Railroad Commission Rule 37 order permitting L & G Oil Company to plug back and redrill 5 abandoned wells, Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8, on its T. W. Lee lease, East Texas Field. Following the issuance of the order, appellants filed suit in the 53rd District Court of Travis County, to set aside the order. The trial court granted the defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment and entered judgment upholding the order of the...

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