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BAZEMORE v. WHITTINGTON

No. 16064.

245 F.2d 943 (1957)

Garvis I. BAZEMORE, C. T. Ruffin and Goodwyn H. Harris, Jr., Appellants, v. Harmon WHITTINGTON, Charles F. Reed and W. Paul Edman, d/b/a Mid-Century Oil & Gas Company and A. B. Dow, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 31, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon B. Golsan, Jr., Howard E. Spann, Craig, Magee & Spann, Mansfield, La., for appellants.

W. M. Phillips, Marlin Risinger, Jr., W. S. Waller, Shreveport, La., for appellees.

Before RIVES, TUTTLE and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

The contention, pressed successfully by plaintiff-appellee Edman and his other Texas associates trading as Mid-Century Oil & Gas Company, was whether, through the operation of the doctrine1 of after-acquired title, Edman, by a 1951 assignment to him of an earlier (1947) oil and gas lease obtained a lease of the whole rather than one-half of the minerals because, subsequent to the assignment, an outstanding...

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