CONSTANTIN v. MARTIN

No. 4871.

216 F.2d 312 (1954)

E. CONSTANTIN, Jr., Appellant, v. M. G. MARTIN, M. J. Barris, Clara Lee Barris, Warren S. Blufston, Hanna K. Blufston, H. S. Blufston, Ida Blufston, Lena Burk, Willmar A. Chulock, Aaron W. Chulock, M. M. Goldman, Dorothy Goldman, S. F. Goldwyn, Mildred Guttman, Edith Marks, Arthur M. Holland, Ann Holland, Harry E. Holland, Max G. Holland, Lillian Holland, Goldie Jameson, Lester Jameson, Sam Karlov, Bernard Marks, Rebecca Marks, Howard A. Martin, Chester Rosenthal, Thelma Rosenthal, J. L. Rovin, Bertha Rovin, Nettie Schachtman, Michael Shepard, Alta W. Shepard, David Turnheim, Anna T. Kohn, Doyle Watson, Lorene Watson, Gilbert Schechtman, Hortense G. Shepard, Philip Shepard and Shell Oil Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

October 14, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. J. Watts, Oklahoma City, Okl., and Robert D. Hudson, Tulsa, Okl. (Hudson, Hudson & Wheaton, Tulsa, Okl., Looney, Watts, Ross, Looney & Nichols and Ned Looney, Oklahoma City, Okl., on the briefs), for appellant.

T. Murray Robinson, Oklahoma City, Okl. (S. F. Goldwyn, Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, PICKETT, Circuit Judge, and RITTER, District Judge.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

On February 23, 1949, M. G. Martin and Kenneth A. Ellison, being then the owners of oil and gas leases covering the SW ¼ and the W ½ of the SE ¼ of S. 18, T. 10 N., R. 20 W., entered into a contract with Constantin, by the terms of which Martin and Ellison agreed to assign to Constantin such oil and gas leases, in consideration of Constantin drilling a well on the tract of land covered by such leases. The contract provided that...

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