SOCONY MOBIL OIL COMPANY v. BROOKLYN UNION GAS COMPANY

Nos. 18941-18944.

299 F.2d 692 (1962)

SOCONY MOBIL OIL COMPANY, Inc., Appellant, v. BROOKLYN UNION GAS COMPANY et al., Appellees. The OHIO OIL COMPANY, Appellant, v. BROOKLYN UNION GAS COMPANY et al., Appellees. BROOKLYN UNION GAS COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE CORPORATION et al., Appellees. TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE CORPORATION, Appellant, v. The OHIO OIL COMPANY and Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Fletcher, John Daniel, Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Houston, Tex., for Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc.

Richard L. McGraw, Austin C. Wilson,

James B. Henderson, Richard L. McGraw, Austin C. Wilson, Houston, Tex., Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for Transcontinental Gas Corp.

F. L. Andrews, W. M. Streetman, Lewis T. Sweet, Jr., Houston, Tex., Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for Brooklyn Union Gas Co., et al.

Clayton L. Orn, Robert M. Vaughan, Findlay, Ohio, W. Hume Everett, J. O. Terrell Couch and Warren B. Leach, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Ohio Oil Co.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and HUTCHESON and JONES, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

These appeals from summary judgments of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas present many interesting questions of law. The district judge, in a memorandum opinion,1 set forth these questions clearly and dealt with them in a thorough and completely correct way. It would serve no useful purpose, therefore, for us to set the questions out or discuss them in detail here. It is sufficient...

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