BROOKS v. SHEPARD

Civ. A. No. 1729.

157 F.Supp. 379 (1957)

David K. BROOKS, Plaintiff, v. Edward Samuel SHEPARD, Agatha C. Shepard Jordan, Daniel G. Shepard, Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Alabama, John F. Walker and W. W. Hawkins, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Alabama, S. D.

December 26, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Butler (of Hamilton, Denniston, Butler & Riddick), Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff.

Bart B. Chamberlain Jr., Mobile, Ala., for Shepards.

S. P. Gaillard, Jr. (of Gaillard & Gaillard), Mobile, Ala., for Walker and Hawkins.

Palmer Pillans (of Pillans, Reams, Tappan, Wood & Roberts), Mobile, Ala., for Board of School Com'rs.


THOMAS, District Judge.

Action seeking a declaratory judgment to determine what are the plaintiff's rights under oil, gas and mineral leases made to him by, respectively, the Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County (which, for brevity, will be referred to herein as the School Board), and by Edward Samuel Shepard and wife, Daniel G. Shepard and wife, and Agatha C. Shepard Jordan and husband.

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