Ohio Oil Company v. Indiana

Citations

• 177 U.S. 190
• 20 S. Ct. 576
• 44 L. Ed. 729
• 1900 U.S. LEXIS 1788

Syllabus

<p>The provision in the act of March 4, 1893, of the State of Indiana “ that it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation having possession or control of any natural gas or oil well, whether as a contractor, owner, lessee, agent or manager, to allow or permit the flow of gas or oil from any such well to escape into the open air without being confined within such well or proper pipes, or other safe receptacle, for a longer period than two days next after gas or oil shall have been struck in such well; and thereafter all such gas or oil shall be safely and securely confined in such well, pipes or other safe and proper receptacles,” is not a violation of the Constitution of the United States; and its enforcement as to persons whose obedience to its commands were coerced by injunction, is not a taking of private property without adequate compensation, and does not amount to a denial of due process of law, contrary to the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, but is only a regulation by the State of Indiana of a subject which espe- ' cially comes within its lawful authority.</p>