WOOLLEY v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF TEXAS

No. 15617.

230 F.2d 97 (1956)

B. L. WOOLLEY et al., Appellants, v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF TEXAS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe A. Keith, Sherman, Tex., Alto B. Cervin, A. George Biggs, Dallas, Tex., Ralph Elliott, Sherman, Tex., for appellants, Freels, Elliott & Nall, Keith & Kennedy, Sherman, Tex., of counsel.

J. C. Hutcheson, III, Houston, Tex., James E. Henderson, Sherman, Tex., James P. Lee, Houston, Tex., for appellee, Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd, Houston, Tex., Freeman, Wolfe, Henderson & Bryant, Sherman, Tex., of counsel.

Before BORAH and JONES, Circuit Judges, and BENJAMIN C., DAWKINS, Sr., District Judge.


BORAH, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought by Standard Oil Company of Texas against defendants1 seeking a declaratory judgment that a certain oil, gas and mineral lease owned by Standard be established and declared to be in full force and effect, and that a cloud cast upon its title by a lease to B. L. Woolley, one of the defendants herein, be, in all things, removed.

The material facts which give rise to this controversy are...

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