KEEGAN v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO.

No. 11514.

155 F.2d 971 (1946)

KEEGAN v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 23, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irl F. Kennerly, of Houston, Tex., for appellant.

Robt. F. Higgins, Dillard W. Baker, Walter F. Woodul, Robert S. Durno, Cecil N. Cook, W. N. Arnold, Jr., Fred R. Switzer, C. E. Bryson, Dwight H. Austin, Fred V. Hughes, Chester H. Johnson, and J. A. Platt, all of Houston, Tex., and Ballinger Mills, of Galveston, Tex., for appellees.

Before McCORD, WALLER, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


McCORD, Circuit Judge.

Patrick Keegan brought this suit against the Humble Oil and Refining Company to recover an undivided interest in a seventeen acre tract of land, a part of Lot 7 of a subdivision of the north half of the Thomas Choate League in Harris County, Texas. The complaint alleged record title in the plaintiff, that Humble was a trespasser without title, and prayed for judgment vesting in Keegan an undivided one-sixth interest to the land.

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