SUPERIOR OIL CO. v. SOMERS DRILLING CO.

Nos. 8400, 8401.

143 F.2d 49 (1944)

SUPERIOR OIL CO. v. SOMERS DRILLING CO. et al. (two cases).

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

June 13, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. B. Wagner and J. P. Adoue, both of Houston, Tex., Charles Wham and John P. Wham, both of Centralia, Ill., for Superior Oil Co.

Leigh M. Kagy, of East St. Louis, Ill., D. S. Baldwin, and Ray M. Foreman, all of Danville, Ill., for Somers Drilling Co.

Before EVANS, SPARKS, and KERNER, Circuit Judges.


KERNER, Circuit Judge.

The District Court has in its registry the sum of $29,077.88, being the proceeds from the sale of oil produced by defendants from a tract of land pending litigation which involved the validity of their lease. These appeals involve the distribution of this money.

The District Court held that interveners should be paid the costs which they had incurred from April 30, 1941, but refused to allow interveners their costs of drilling the well...

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