WARD v. CORPORATION COMMISSION

Nos. 44894 and 45043.

501 P.2d 503 (1972)

L.O. WARD et al., Appellants, v. CORPORATION COMMISSION of the State of Oklahoma, and Tenneco Oil Company, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

September 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Mobley, Tom Baker, Brown, Verity, Brown & Baker, by Paul Brown, Oklahoma City, for appellants.

Walker & Watson, by Barth P. Walker, Oklahoma City, for appellees.


DAVISON, Vice Chief Justice:

We have heretofore answered many questions that have been presented by the application of 52 O.S. 1961 § 87.1 (Supp. 1963) and its statutory predecessors which delegated to the Corporation Commission (Commission) the power and imposed the duty to prevent or minimize waste and drainage within a "common source of supply" as therein defined, of oil or gas or of oil and gas as therein defined.

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