STATE v. SUPERIOR OIL COMPANY

No. 937.

526 S.W.2d 581 (1975)

The STATE of Texas, Appellant, v. The SUPERIOR OIL COMPANY et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied August 29, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Hill, Jr., Atty. Gen., J. Milton Richardson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, John H. Flinn, Sinton, Richard D. Hatch, III, Aransas Pass, for plaintiff.

Anderson, Smith, Null & Stofer, Victoria, William J. Ayers, The Permian Corp., Houston, W. Newton Barnes, Mockingbird Tower, W. S. Barron, Jr., Geary, Brice, Barron & Stahl, Dallas, Louis H. Beard, Wells, Duncan, Beard, Greenberg & Hunt, Beaumont, Marshall Boykin, III, Wood, Boykin & Wolter, Corpus Christi, Robert L. Bradley, Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, Houston, H. A. Burnett, Burnett & Burnett, Sinton, Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Claude C. Roberts, William S. Clarke, Texaco Inc., Houston, J. W. Cooper, Jr., David M. Coover, Davis & Hale, Dyer, Redford, Burnett, Wray & Woolsey, Corpus Christi, Robert M. Ewing, Ewing & Gerger, Dallas, Samuel L. Fly, Forest Oil Corp., San Antonio, Foy, Cobb, Campbell & Gall, Clifford G. Campbell, Joe H. Foy, Houston, Ralph J. Graham, Corpus Christi, Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, Moody & Garwood, Austin, Head & Kendrick, Corpus Christi, Richard Henderson, Guittard & Henderson, Victoria, Frederic Johnson, Sinton, Allen S. Lawrence, Jr., Ellis, Andrews & Lawrence, Aransas Pass, Warren B. Leach, Jr., William H. Holloway, Marathon Oil Co., Thomas H. Lee, Lee & Babcock, Houston, Fritz L. Lyne, Lyne, Klein, French & Womble, Dallas, Dave McNeill, Jr., Harry M. Reasoner, David T. Harvin, Vinson, Elkins, Searls, Connally & Smith, Houston, Frank R. McWhorter, Tenneco, Inc., Houston, M. W. Meredith, Jr., Meredith & Donnell, Corpus Christi, John H. Miller, Jr., Sinton, Walter B. Morgan, Ezzon Co., U. S. A., B. W. Morris, Sinclair Oil & Gas Co., Houston, William E. Nicholas, Sinton, Clayton L. Orn, Anderson, Brown, Orn & Jones, Houston, D. Dean Patton, Morrill & Patton, Beeville, Roy E. Pitts, J. Harold Goode, Lone Star Gas Co., Dallas, Bernard W. Schrader, Coastal States Gas Producing Co., E. E. Shouse, Herbert W. Varner, R. T. Robberson, The Superior Oil Co., Houston, Milton W. Walton, M. Harvey Weil, Kleberg, Mobley, Lockett & Weil, Corpus Christi, David A. Witts, Dallas, Claude D. Bell, Jr., Dallas, R. J. Delahoussaye, Corpus Christi, J. P. Greve, Jr., Rufus N. McKnight, Jr., Sun Oil Co., Dallas, J. R. Keeling, Corpus Christi, Kliewer & Hood, Dallas, Fred A. Lange, Austin, Dabney, Northrop & Garwood, Houston, J. R. Sorrell, Sorrell, Anderson & Sorrell, Corpus Christi, Renfro Speed, Hexter-Fair Title Co., Dallas, R. F. Thompson, Fort Worth, Atwood McDonald, McDonald, Sanders, Ginsburg, Phillips, Maddox & Newkirk, Fort Worth, J. Patrick McGloin, Kleberg, Mobley, Lockett & Weil, Corpus Christi, Morrison, Dittmar, Dahlgren & Kaine, San Antonio, Perkins, Davis, Oden & Warburton, Alice, Hubert M. Preston, San Angelo, for defendants.


OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is a vacancy case. The cause originated as a suit filed by an applicant, Walter C. Atchley, acting under article 5421c, section 6, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. seeking to purchase 12,068.4 acres of state land. Atchley's application had been rejected by the commissioner of the General Land Office before he filed suit. The State of Texas acting under the authority of article 5421c, section 6(j), Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. intervened in...

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