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PETROLEUM FINANCIAL CORPORATION v. COCKBURN

No. 16192.

241 F.2d 312 (1957)

PETROLEUM FINANCIAL CORPORATION, Appellant, v. H. C. COCKBURN and Cockburn Oil Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 14, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thaddeus G. Benton, New York City, Ben H. Schleider, Jr., Dillingham & Schleider, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

J. L. Webb, W. H. Colbert, Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Before CAMERON, JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Petroleum Financial Corporation, the successor and beneficiary of a claimed contract made for it by its mastermind Benton, a lawyer — oil lease broker — promoter based in New York, appeals from the District Court denial of its claim of breach of contract by Cockburn (or his family corporation), a Texas oil operator and trader.

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