Case ID: sw2d_70/html/0587-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SMEDLEY, Commissioner.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BLUE STAR OIL COMPANY et al., Relators, v. James V. ALLRED, Atty. Gen., of Texas, Respondent.
    No. 1518—1756—6639.
    Commission of Appeals of Texas, Sections A and B.
    April 18, 1934.
    Black & Graves', of Austin, Rice M.' Tilley and Harry Brelsford, both of Port Worth,! Locke, Locke, Stroud & Randolph, and -ReiA fro, Ledbetter & McCombs, all of Dallás, and! Davidson, Blalock & Blalock, of Marshall,< for relators. . ,
    James V. Allred, Atty. Gen., and Homer C:’ DeWolfe, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.'1
   SMEDLEY, Commissioner.

This is a companion case to Rhoads Drilling Company et al. v. James V. Allred, Attorney General, 70 S.W.(2d) 576, this day decided. Relators are the owners of oil and gas leases covering certain tracts in the bed of the Sabine river, and identical in date and terms, except the description of the area leased, with the leases involved in that case. Respondent declined to approve a supplemental contract executed by the. board of mineral development and relators on July 1, 1933, containing substantially the same recitals, terms, and conditions as those contained in the supplemental contract in that ease construed. The pleadings present similar facts, and the briefs the same questions.

The writ of mandamus will issue in aeborxt" anee with the prayer of relator’s petition,; awd-directing approval of the contract as of July 1, 1933.

Adopted by the Supreme Court April 18, 1934. . . . ,.