TEXACO, INC. v. RAILROAD COMMISSION

No. B-7909.

583 S.W.2d 307 (1979)

TEXACO, INC., et al., Appellants, v. RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Texas.

May 9, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Joe R. Greenhill, Jr. and Milton Bankston, Austin, Vinson & Elkins, Raybourne Thompson, Houston, for appellants.

Mark White, Atty. Gen., Ralph T. Aldave, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Robert C. McGinnis and S. Jack Balagia, Jr., Austin, for appellees.


CAMPBELL, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from a district court judgment. Texaco Inc. and Vernon W. Frost et al. applied to the Railroad Commission for a permanent suspension of a bonus allowable rule (Rule 20), in the Fig Ridge (Seabreeze) Oil Field in Chambers County. The Commission denied the suspension, and the decision was upheld by the District Court of Travis County.

The Fig Ridge Oil Field was discovered in 1941 in the Frio Formation in Chambers County...

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