SOCONY MOBIL OIL COMPANY v. CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY

No. 7480.

335 F.2d 438 (1964)

SOCONY MOBIL OIL COMPANY, Inc., Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Midwest Oil Corporation, a corporation, and King-Stevenson Gas and Oil Company, a corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Richards and Coleman H. Hayes, Oklahoma City, Okl. (S. M. Groom, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okl., and C. B. Wallace and Ross Madole, Dallas, Tex., with them on the brief), for appellant.

Fisher Ames, of Ames, Daugherty, Bynum, Black, Ashabranner & Rogers, Oklahoma City, Okl. (Lewis G. Mosburg, Jr., of Mosteller, Andrews & Mosburg, Oklahoma City, Okl., for King-Stevenson Gas & Oil Co., appellee, Richard R. Linn and Robert E. Gill, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okl., for Continental Oil Co., appellee, with him on the brief), for Midwest Oil Corp., appellee.

Before PICKETT, LEWIS and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges.


PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, requiring the appellant to assign certain interests in oil and gas leases to the appellees which the court found had been earned under the terms of a farm-out agreement, as amended. The principal issue here is whether the plaintiffs acted diligently in demanding an assignment of the oil and gas leases in question.

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