WARD v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO.

No. 19488.

321 F.2d 775 (1963)

Charles L. WARD, Appellant, v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO., Union Producing Co., Alexander F. Chisholm, Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 15, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. S. Scott, Jr., Laurel, Miss., for appellant.

M. M. Roberts, Hattiesburg, Miss., William S. Boyd, Jr., Laurel, Miss., Joe A. Thompson, E. L. Brunini, Brunini, Everett, Grantham & Quin, Jackson, Miss., Boyd & Holifield, Laurel, Miss., Ramsey Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Roger P. Marquis, George R. Hyde, S. Billingsley Hill, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Edwin R. Holmes, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Before RIVES and CAMERON, Circuit Judges, and BOOTLE, District Judge.


BOOTLE, District Judge.

Appellant claiming to be the owner of surface rights and an undivided one-half oil, gas and other mineral estate in, on and under Lot 17, Section 20, Township 10 N., Range 11 W. second judicial district of Jones County, Mississippi, a tract triangular in shape, lying immediately south of the boundary between Jones and Jasper Counties allegedly containing 11.24 acres and being the only part of Section 20 lying in Jones County, filed his complaint...

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