RAILROAD COMMISSION v. SAMPLE

No. A-10958.

405 S.W.2d 338 (1966)

RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Appellants, v. Clark SAMPLE, Jr., et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 20, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen., Austin, J. Arthur Sandlin, Linward Shivers, C. Daniel Jones, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., John S. Miller and Thomas W. Lynch, Tulsa, Okl., Cecil C. Cammack, Alfred O. Holl, Robert F. LeBlanc, Bartletsville, Okl., K. C. Minter, Houston, Charles Heidrick, E. M. Cage and Granville Dutton, Dallas, McGinnis, Lochridge, Kilgore, Hunter & Wilson, B. D. St. Clair, Austin, for appellants.

Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius & Winters, James H. Keahey, Austin, for appellees.


WALKER, Justice.

After notice and hearing the Railroad Commission of Texas issued its Special Order No. 6-52,584 dated May 24, 1965, requiring Clark Sample, Jr., as operator of the Caddie Fisher Lease in the East Texas Field, to make up out of future allowables 58,061 barrels of oil found by the Commission to have been overproduced from wells on the lease. This suit was brought against the Commission by Sample and other owners of the working interest in the lease...

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