BISHOP PETROLEUM, INC. v. RAILROAD COM'N

No. C-6671.

751 S.W.2d 485 (1988)

BISHOP PETROLEUM, INC., Petitioner, v. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS, et al., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd A. Muennink and Richard B. Edgell, Law Offices of Lloyd A. Muennink, Austin, Joe Cannon, Cannon & Simmons, Groesbeck, for petitioner.

Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Diane Weidert Morris, Office of the Atty. Gen., Frank Douglass, John W. Camp, Doug J. Dashiell and John Pierce Griffin, Scott, Douglass & Luton, Austin, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

This case concerns the establishment of a force-pooled gas unit by the Railroad Commission. The Railroad Commission granted an application by Wiggins Brothers, Inc. and others to pool their acreage into an adjacent tract operated by Bishop Petroleum, Inc. On appeal, the district court declared the Commission's order invalid for want of jurisdiction and remanded the case to the Commission with instructions to enter an order dismissing Wiggins Brothers'...

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