STATE OIL & GAS BD. v. MISSISSIPPI MIN. & ROY. OWN. ASS'N

No. 46265.

258 So.2d 767 (1971)

The STATE OIL & GAS BOARD et al. v. MISSISSIPPI MINERAL & ROYALTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Dissenting Opinions August 10, 1971.

Rehearing Denied March 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Carl F. Andre, Asst. Atty. Gen., John M. Grower, Brunini, Everett, Grantham & Quin, Heidelberg, Woodliff & Franks, Jackson, Vernon L. Terrell, Jr., New Orleans, for appellants.

Michael R. Eubanks, Lumberton, Williams & Williams, Poplarville, for appellees.


PER CURIAM:

After due, legal and proper notice, and after a full hearing, the State Oil and Gas Board of Mississippi amended its Statewide Rules 7 and 8, widening and increasing the spacing pattern for oil and gas wells drilled below 12,000 feet and in the Pennsylvanian and older formations below a measured depth of 3500 feet, to a drilling unit of 80 acres for an oil well and a drilling unit of 640 acres for a gas well.

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