APPLEBY v. KEWANEE OIL COMPANY

No. 6251.

279 F.2d 334 (1960)

M. P. APPLEBY, Jr., Appellant, v. KEWANEE OIL COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

May 28, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. C. Spillers, Jr., Tulsa, Okl. (G. C. Spillers and Jack R. Givens, Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for appellant.

Robert D. Hudson, Tulsa, Okl. (W. Perry Dornaus, Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for appellee.

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


MURRAH, Chief Judge.

Appellant Appleby brought this diversity suit to collect $20,000 allegedly promised him for services rendered in providing information leading to the purchase of certain Texas oil and gas leases.

Appleby claimed that in February 1958, he offered to procure for Kewanee the leases, then owned by Bell Oil & Gas Company, for $675,000, and to furnish engineering data on the leases, all for the sum of $20,000 if Kewanee decided to purchase...

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