DELTA DRILLING CO. v. ARNETT

Nos. 11097, 11098, No. 11099.

186 F.2d 481 (1950)

DELTA DRILLING CO. et al. v. ARNETT. BRACKETT et al. v. ARNETT. ARNETT v. DELTA DRILLING CO. et al.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Denied March 26, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles G. Middleton, Louisville, Ky., for appellant Delta Drilling Co.

William L. Sullivan, Henderson, Ky., for appellant W. W. Brackett et al.

Charles G. Middleton, Leo T. Wolford, and Eugene B. Cochran, Louisville, Ky., King, Flournoy & Craig, and N. Powell Taylor, and Pentecost & Dorsey, all of Henderson, Ky., Ralph W. Garrett, Robert L. Imler, Tulsa, Okl., Clarence Lohman, Edward Kliewer, Jr., Houston, Tex. on the briefs, for appellants and cross-appellees.

Thomas E. Sandidge and W. P. Sandidge, Owensboro, Ky., Edwin M. Slote, New York City, for Thomas E. Arnett, appellee and cross-appellant.

Before HICKS, Chief Judge, and ALLEN and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Denied March 26, 1951. See 71 S.Ct. 574.

ALLEN, Circuit Judge.

These appeals and cross-appeal involve title to the oil and gas underlying a tract of about 47 acres of land, situated in Henderson County, Kentucky.1 In 1915 Rubie Powell and her husband, owners of the land in question, conveyed it by general warranty deed, in fee simple, to plaintiff Thomas E. Arnett. This deed is the common source of title for...

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