DEVON CORP. v. MILLER

No. 14488.

280 S.E.2d 108 (1981)

DEVON CORPORATION, Eason Oil Company, and P & O Oil Corporation v. Walter N. MILLER, Director, West Virginia Department of Mines, Robert L. Dodd, Deputy Director, West Virginia Department of Mines, Oil and Gas Division, and Thomas E. Huzzey, Commissioner, West Virginia Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Rehearing Denied October 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bowles, McDavid, Graff & Love, Paul N. Bowles and Ricklin Brown, Charleston, for: P. E.

Snyder & Segal and Benjamin N. Snyder, Clendenin, David B. McMahon, Charleston, Lorie Blackman Howley, Chloe, Tobias J. Hirshman, Charleston, amicus curiae: Oil and Gas Reform, Hallie Mae Johnson, Timothy P. Higgins.

Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen., Richard L. Earles and James F. Wallington, Asst. Attys. Gen., Charleston, for: D. E.


McHUGH, Justice:

This action is before this Court upon the petition of Devon Corporation, Eason Oil Company and P & O Oil Company (hereinafter "petitioners") for an appeal and supersedeas from a final order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, upon all stipulations, exhibits and other matters of record, upon the briefs and argument of counsel and upon the brief on behalf of amici curiae.

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