WOODLEY PETROLEUM COMPANY v. BUMPASS

No. 15025.

218 F.2d 545 (1955)

WOODLEY PETROLEUM COMPANY and Kirby Petroleum Company, Appellants, v. E. B. BUMPASS and wife, Tinah H. Bumpass, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 20, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay R. Jameson, Abilene, Tex., Cooper K. Ragan, Houston, Tex., Jean M. Worsham, Houston, Tex., Jameson, Whitten & Harrell, Abilene, Tex., for appellants.

Joe E. Childers, Roy L. Duke and Childers & Childers, Abilene, Tex., for appellees.

Before HOLMES and TUTTLE, Circuit Judges, and ALLRED, District Judge.


HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

The appellees were plaintiffs and the appellants defendants in this suit, which was originally filed in a state court of Texas and, on petition of defendants, was removed to the federal court. The suit was originally for damages for defendants' failure reasonably to develop, and to drill an offset well on, 170 acres of land in Jones County, Texas, under the terms of an oil and gas lease covering the tract of land in question. The appellees were...

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