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HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY v. CALVERT

No. B-2685.

478 S.W.2d 926 (1972)

HUMBLE OIL AND REFINING COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Robert S. CALVERT et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 10, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Lloyd Lochridge, Austin, Neville Fitch, Walter B. Morgan, Dillard Baker and Lee Hill, Houston, for petitioner.

Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen., Wardlow Lane and Jim Broadhurst, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, for respondents.

GREENHILL, Justice.

Humble Oil & Refining Company instituted this action to recover "occupation taxes" and the Regulation Pipeline Tax paid to the State under protest. The taxes arose out of Humble's operations in the federally owned Corpus Christi Naval Air Station enclave.

The two main problems are (1) whether by executing an oil and gas lease, the United States abandoned its exclusive jurisdiction over the mineral estate in the enclave, and (2) whether...

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