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REED v. HOUSTON OIL CO. OF TEXAS

No. 10199.

132 F.2d 748 (1943)

REED et al. v. HOUSTON OIL CO. OF TEXAS et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 17, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur H. Bartelt, of Austin, Tex., for appellants.

William Hamlet Blades and Tarlton Morrow, both of Houston, Tex., and Ben F. Vaughan, Jr., of Corpus Christi, Tex., for appellees.

Before HOLMES and McCORD, Circuit Judges, and STRUM, District Judge.

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This was a suit to cancel an oil and gas contract, for an accounting, for a reconveyance of an undivided one-half interest in the leases acquired by the Houston Oil Company, and for cancellation of certain corporate stock. Jurisdiction of the court below was based solely upon diversity of citizenship and the requisite amount in controversy. Some of the defendants below were not served with process, and the suit was dismissed as to them. As to...

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