HARPER v. HUDSON GAS & OIL CORPORATION

No. 18895.

299 F.2d 238 (1962)

J. A. HARPER, Appellant, v. HUDSON GAS & OIL CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 25, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Sparks, Monroe, La., Thompson, Thompson & Sparks, Monroe, La., for appellant.

G. M. Bodenheimer, Jr., Shreveport, La., Bodenheimer, Looney, Richie & Jones, Shreveport, La., Patrick W. Looney, Clyde E. Love, Shreveport, La., of counsel, for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and POPE and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This appeal attacks the Trial Court's decision upholding the validity of the appellee's oil and gas lease. The question is whether production from a well not on the leased lands but on lands within a pooled unit which included part of the leased land sufficed to keep this particular lease in force as to the lands included in the unit.

The facts essential to our decision are not in dispute. On February 18, 1955, Hudson acquired a lease...

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