HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY v. MARTIN

No. 18579.

298 F.2d 163 (1961)

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, Appellant, v. Mabel W. MARTIN, Annie M. Kelly, Sue Kelly Mee, W. J. Vollor, Landman Teller, James P. Biedenharn, L. C. Gwin and R. D. Kuehnle, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 29, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. M. Roberts, Joe A. Thompson, W. H. Morrow, Hattiesburg, Miss., for appellant.

Landman Teller, of Teller, Biedenharn & Rogers, Vicksburg, Miss., L. C. Gwin, of Gwin & Kuehnle, Natchez, Miss., for appellees.

Before CAMERON and WISDOM, Circuit Judges, and THOMAS, District Judge.


CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

Appellees Mabel W. Martin, et al1 filed this action to recover damages for drainage and waste alleged to have been committed by Humble to appellees' one-thirtieth undivided interest in a vested remainder in Berkely Plantation on which appellant had drilled a number of oil wells and had captured and removed large quantities of oil. The court below entered judgment in favor of appellee, finding that she was the owner...

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