J. P. ROGERS, Appellant,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee (two cases).
A. L. HILBIG, Appellant,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Frank G. BOLES and Katie M. Boles, Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee (seven cases).
Blanche ENGEL, Appellant,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee (two cases).
Robert W. BAUGHMAN and Helen E. Baughman, his wife, Robert W. Baughman, Oliver S. Brown and Guy E. Spear, Executors and Trustees of the estate of John W. Baughman, deceased, Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
A. L. HILBIG and Esther Mae Hilbig, Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Lula DUNLAP, H. Harold Dunlap, Pearl Pitcher, Robert L. Dunlap, Josephine Light, Marilyn E. Dunlap, Catherine C. Dunlap and Charles M. Light, Jr., Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee (two cases).
Robert W. BAUGHMAN, Oliver Brown, and Guy E. Spear, Executors of the estate of Ella Baughman, deceased, Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Goldie B. DUBOIS, Appellant,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Alice Marjorie McGILL and Sherley McGill, Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Paul R. PACKER, Appellant,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Etta HAWK, Appellant,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Orville BELILE and Helena L. Belile, Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
N. G. MORLAN and Okel E. Morlan, Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
E. D. HAMPTON and Flora Hampton, Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Merle W. BLOOM, Mildred L. Bloom, Nellie J. Vail, L. A. Bloom, Mildred C. Bloom, Edna E. Headrick, Roy W. Headrick, Wilma A. Keating and James B. Keating, Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee (two cases).
Joseph A. HANLIN, Francis B. Hanlin, Mary J. Brewington and Ray Brewington, Appellants,
v.
WESTHOMA OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 4, 1961.
Rehearing Denied July 11, 1961.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Dale M. Stucky and Wayne Coulson, Wichita, Kan. (Auburn Light, James R. Yoxall, Liberal, Kan., Paul R. Kitch, Donald R. Newkirk, Robert J. Hill, Gerrit H. Wormhoudt and Robert T. Cornwell, Wichita, Kan., and Light & Light, Liberal, Kan., Hugo T. Wedell and Homer V. Gooing, Wichita, Kan., of counsel, on the brief), for appellants.
John F. Eberhardt, Wichita, Kan. (George B. Powers, Carl T. Smith, Stuart R. Carter, Robert C. Foulston, Malcolm Miller, Robert N. Partridge, Robert M. Siefkin, Richard C. Harris and Gerald Sawatzky, Wichita, Kan., on the brief), for appellee.
Elmer W. Adams, Tulsa, Okl., Lynn Adams, Oklahoma City, Okl., G. D. Ashabranner, George H. Bowen, Cecil R. Buckles, Angus A. Davidson, Glenn R. Davis, J. Paul Greve, Howard H. Harris, Tulsa, Okl., Coleman Hayes, S. D. Holloway, Oklahoma City, Okl., Robert A. Huffman, Hawley C. Kerr, Tulsa, Okl., Gentry Lee, Bartlesville, Okl., William E. Lester, Tulsa, Okl., Richard R. Linn, Oklahoma City, Okl., James H. McGowan, Tulsa, Okl., R. O. Mason, L. G. Minter, Bartlesville, Okl., Robert W. Richards, Oklahoma City, Okl., Richard P. Ryan, Tulsa, Okl., Nathan Scarritt, Enid, Okl., Norton Standeven, Oklahoma City, Okl., Leslie A. Thompson, H. B. Watson, Jr., Philip R. Wimbish, Tulsa, Okl., John W. Wolfe, Oklahoma City, Okl., and Wm. J. Zeman, Bartlesville, Okl., amici curiae.
Before MURRAH, Chief Judge, and BRATTON and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
These 27 consolidated appeals are from separate judgments entered in declaratory judgment actions brought by lessors or their successors to determine whether the oil and gas leases involved had terminated as to all horizons below sea level at the expiration of their respective primary terms because of failure to obtain production. They present a common question of law bearing on similar and undisputed facts. Twenty-four of the actions...
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