UNITED STATES v. MORGAN

No. 19840.

321 F.2d 781 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. J. A. MORGAN and Myra S. Morgan, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 9, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee A. Jackson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., E. R. Holmes, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst Atty. Gen., Meyer Rothwacks, Melva M. Graney, Robert L. Waters, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

William E. Logan, Gulfport, Miss., Stanford E. Morse, Gulfport, Miss., W. E. Logan, Jr., Lafayette, La., for appellees.

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


BOOTLE, District Judge.

J. A. Morgan, on December 23, 1953, obtained an oil and gas lease from Cora Suggs, et al., paying therefor Six Thousand ($6,000.00) Dollars. On July 24, 1954, for a cash consideration of Seventy-One Thousand Four Hundred ($71,400.00) Dollars, he did "sell, set over, transfer, assign and specially warrant unto E. A. Vaughey" the lease, and Vaughey the same day executed an assignment to Morgan of "one-sixteenth of * * * all oil, gas and other...

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