BUCHANAN v. SINCLAIR OIL & GAS COMPANY

No. 15101.

218 F.2d 436 (1955)

A. F. BUCHANAN and wife, Celeste Buchanan, et al., v. SINCLAIR OIL & GAS COMPANY, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orrin W. Johnson, Harlingen, Tex., Cecil A. Morgan, Ft. Worth, Tex., for appellants.

C. W. Truehart, San Antonio, Tex., Paul A. McDermott, Ft. Worth, Tex., Thomas Fletcher, Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Nat J. Harben, Ft. Worth, Tex., James W. McCartney, Houston, Tex., Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for Sinclair Oil & Gas Co.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BORAH and RIVES, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought by A. F. Buchanan and wife, R. R. Rice, Clara B. Rice, a widow, and Valfalfa Farms, a partnership composed of A. F., K. C., and William I. Buchanan, and A. F. Buchanan, Jr., against Sinclair Oil & Gas Company and fifty-nine others made defendants as parties so affected by the litigation as to be indispensable, the suit was for: (1) a declaratory judgment that a certain oil and gas lease No. 377, one of three leases executed by plaintiffs...

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