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HUMPHREYS OIL CO. v. TATUM

No. 4992.

26 F.2d 882 (1928)

HUMPHREYS OIL CO. et al. v. TATUM et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 27, 1928.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde A. Sweeton, of Houston, Tex. (C. S. Bradley, of Groesbeck, Tex., and Vinson, Elkins, Sweeton & Weems, of Houston, Tex., on the brief), for plaintiffs in error.

N. B. Williams and Clay McClellan, both of Waco, Tex. (Williams, Williams, McClellan & Lincoln, of Waco, Tex., on the brief), for defendants in error.

Before WALKER, BRYAN, and FOSTER, Circuit Judges.

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by appellees, Joe Will Tatum and his wife, Lizzie Tatum, and L. C. Puckett and G. Stratton, against the Humphreys Oil Company and the Pure Oil Company, appellants, to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the failure of appellants to properly develop, and to protect from drainage by other wells, in close proximity, some 25 acres of land in Limestone county, Tex., in what is known as the Mexia oil field, to which...

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