DAMSON OIL CORP. v. SOUTHEASTERN OIL CO.

No. 51073.

370 So.2d 225 (1979)

DAMSON OIL CORPORATION v. SOUTHEASTERN OIL COMPANY, Fairchild Construction Company, Ltd. and Marion Corporation.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 4, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie H. Southwick, John M. Grower, Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, for appellant.

Heidelberg, Woodliff & Franks, Luther M. Thompson, Jackson, for appellees.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and BROOM and BOWLING, JJ.


BROOM, Justice, for the Court:

Oil well drilling permits (pooling adjacent 40-acre tracts) proposed by competing petitions before the Mississippi Oil & Gas Board (the Board herein) are at issue. Damson Oil Corporation (Damson herein) appeals the circuit court's reversal of the order of the Oil & Gas Board which order canceled a drilling permit issued to appellee, Southeastern Oil Company (Southeastern herein) to drill on an 80-acre unit consisting of the SW...

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