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PITTMAN v. GULF REFINING CO.

No. 10523.

141 F.2d 478 (1944)

PITTMAN et al. v. GULF REFINING CO. OF LOUISIANA et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing April 13, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene D. Saunders, Walter J. Suthon, and Roberts C. Milling, all of New Orleans, La., and Geo. C. Schoenberger, Jr., of Houston, Tex., for appellants.

Henry H. Chaffe, Warren M. Simon, Michel M. Irwin, and William A. West, Jr., all of New Orleans, La., and Charles C. Richmond, J. S. Atkinson, and Frederick E. Greer, all of Shreveport, La., John E. Green, Jr., of Houston, Tex., and Moise Thibodeaux, of Baton Rouge, La., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, HOLMES, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This is a petitory action by appellants (plaintiffs and interveners below) to establish their title to certain lands in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, and to obtain an accounting for oil and gas removed therefrom. Federal jurisdiction exists solely by virtue of diversity of citizenship. There is no dispute as to the location of the land in controversy, but there are serious controversies as to the correct...

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