RAILROAD COMMISSION v. WOODS EXPLORATION & PRODUCING CO.

No. A-10825.

405 S.W.2d 313 (1966)

RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Appellants, v. WOODS EXPLORATION AND PRODUCING COMPANY, Inc., et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 27, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, James E. Allison, Jr., and Leroy Jeffers, Houston, Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius & Winters, James H. Keahey, Austin, Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen., Austin, Linward Shivers and C. L. Snow, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants.

Herring & Werkenthin, Austin, Miller B. Walker, Jr. and Levert J. Able, Houston, William E. York, McAllen, Price Daniel, Austin, for appellees.


WALKER, Justice.

This is another controversy between operators with wells on large tracts and those with wells on small tracts in the Appling Gas Field in Calhoun and Jackson Counties. Substantially the same parties have been before us on two previous occasions. In the first case it was held that each of the vertically separated reservoirs underlying the Field was to be considered as a separate reservoir in determining the right to a Rule 37 exception. The action...

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