HUNT OIL COMPANY v. MARATHON OIL COMPANY

No. 20030.

321 F.2d 702 (1963)

HUNT OIL COMPANY and Bodcaw Company (formerly Nebo Oil Company, Inc.), Appellants, v. MARATHON OIL COMPANY (formerly the Ohio Oil Company), et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 23, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Heldt, Dallas, Tex., J. Ralph Goff, Arcadia, La., for appellants.

Calvin A. Brown, Findlay, Ohio, C. Ford Currier, Robert Roberts, Jr., Arthur O'Quin, David E. Smitherman, Stuart D. Lunn, Sumter Cousin, Shreveport, La., Clayton L. Orn, Joseph F. Diver, Findlay, Ohio, Howard H. Harris, Tulsa, Okl., Blanchard, Goldstein, Walker & O'Quin, Shreveport, La., of counsel, for appellees.

Smitherman, Smitherman, Purcell & Lunn, Shreveport, La., for third-party defendants A. J. Hodges Industries, Inc., et al.

Before HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge, LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and BROWN, Circuit Judge.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellants have appealed from a district court judgment of dismissal and rejection, with prejudice, of their demands in this action initiated by Hunt Oil Company against The Ohio Oil Company (now Marathon Oil Company) to enforce rights claimed by appellants in production from two wells completed in the so-called "North `D' Sand". We affirm the judgment of the district court.

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