GREENSHIELDS v. WARREN PETROLEUM CORPORATION

Nos. 5449, 5450.

248 F.2d 61 (1957)

W. D. GREENSHIELDS, Appellant, v. WARREN PETROLEUM CORPORATION, a corporation; et al., Appellees. Julius LIVINGSTON and Livingston Oil Company, a corporation, Appellants, v. WARREN PETROLEUM CORPORATION, a corporation; et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 27, 1957.

Writ of Certiorari Denied December 16, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. D. Greenshields, Ponca City, Okl., for appellant, W. D. Greenshields.

Duke Duvall, Oklahoma City, Okl., and Ted R. Fisher, Tulsa, Okl., for appellants, Julius Livingston and Livingston Oil Co.

Reford Bond, Jr., Chickasha, Okl., and Richard W. Fowler, Oklahoma City, and Warren M. Sparks, Tulsa, Okl., for appellees, Warren Petroleum Corp. and Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. (John S. Carlson, O. L. Lupardus and T. Maxwell Anderson, Tulsa, Okl., were with them on the brief).

Villard Martin, Garrett Logan and Villard Martin, Jr., Tulsa, Okl., for appellee, The Atlantic Refining Co. Richard W. Fowler, Oklahoma City, Okl., Reford Bond, Jr., Chickasha, Okl., and Lynn J. Bullis, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellees, The Superior Oil Co., Mazda Oil Corp., Bolsa Chica Oil Corp. and J. E. Trigg; Reford Bond, Jr. and Hatcher & Bond, Chickasha, Okl., for appellee, Great Western Producers, Inc.

Before PHILLIPS, PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Denied December 16, 1957. See 78 S.Ct. 334.

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Greenshields, plaintiff below, is one of numerous owners of royalty rights in the Ringwood oil and gas field in Major County, Oklahoma. He initiated this action in the State Court of Major County as a purported class action "for himself and all others similarly situated", naming as defendants all those individuals and corporations holding leases from the royalty...

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