Brown v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “"Any order for such a unit operation shall be issued only after notice and hearing and shall be based on findings that (1) the order is reasonably necessary for the prevention of waste and the drilling of unnecessary wells, and will appreciably increase the ultimate recovery of oil or gas from the affected pool or combination of two pools, (2) the proposed unit operation is economically feasible, (3) the order will provide for the allocation to each separate tract within the unit of a proportionate share of the unit production which shall insure the recovery by the owners of that tract of their just and equitable share of the recoverable oil or gas in the unitized pool or combination of two pools, and (4) at least three-fourths of the owners and three-fourths of the royalty owners, such three-fourths to be in interest as determined under (3) hereof, shall have approved the plan and terms of unit operation, such approval to be evidenced by a written contract or contracts covering the terms and operation of said unitization signed and executed by said three-fourths in interest of said owners and three-fourths in interest of the said royalty owners and filed with the Commissioner on or before the day set for said hearing."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 356 So. 2d 965 - Brown v. Sutton

2. “mandatory findings of jurisdictional facts upon which its [the Commissioner's orders] issuance is conditioned.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 356 So. 2d 965 - Brown v. Sutton