Court Opinion

ID: 5005530
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 01:55:54.985889+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:17:15.540850
License: Public Domain

SMEDLEY, Commissioner.
This is a companion case to Rhoads Drilling Company et al. v. James V. Allred, Attor*588ney General, 70 S.W.(2d) 576, this day decided. Relator is the owner of an oil and gas lease covering a certain tract 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 relator on July 1, 1033, containing substantially the same recitals, terms, and conditions as those contained in the supplemental contract in that case -construed. The pleadings present similar facts and the briefs the same questions.
The writ of mandamus will issue in accordance with the prayer of relator’s petition, and directing approval of the contract as of July 1, 1933.
Adopted by the Supreme Court April 18, 1934.