PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY v. BUSTER

Nos. 5309-5312.

241 F.2d 178 (1957)

The PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. Mayoe Porter BUSTER, Appellee. The PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. H. C. HITCH, Jr., et al., Appellees. The PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. Henry C. HITCH, et al., Appellees. The PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. The HITCH LAND AND CATTLE COMPANY, a corporation, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 5, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Zeman, Bartlesville, Okl. (Rayburn L. Foster, Harry D. Turner, R. M. Williams, Bartlesville, Okl., and Cecil C. Hamilton, Oklahoma City, Okl., were with him on the brief), for appellant.

V. P. Crowe, Oklahoma City, Okl. (Orlando Sweet, Guymon, Okl., William J. Holloway, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okl., Tryon & Sweet, Guymon, Okl., and Embry, Crowe, Tolbert, Boxley & Johnson, Oklahoma City, Okl., were with him on the brief), for appellees.

Before BRATTON, Chief Judge, and PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit Judges.


BRATTON, Chief Judge.

These four cases — filed in the state court and seasonably removed to the United States court on the ground of diversity of citizenship with the requisite amount in controversy — present for determination questions relating to injunctive relief to prevent threatened disconnecting of certain deep water wells used for the irrigation of farm lands in Oklahoma from gas lines of a major producing oil and gas company. The cases are numbered...

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