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ATWOOD v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY

No. 21606.

338 F.2d 502 (1964)

Edwin K. ATWOOD, Alice B. Atwood, Richard W. Atwood, N.C.M., by Alice B. Atwood as his next friend and conservatrix, and Alice B. Atwood, as conservatrix of the Estate of Richard W. Atwood, N.C.M., Thomas H. Fisher and Ruth P. Fisher, Appellants, v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied January 26, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney Farr, Houston, Tex., Thomas H. Fisher, Chicago, Ill., Barrow, Bland, Rehmet & Singleton, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for appellants.

Walter B. Morgan, Houston, Tex., Dillard Baker, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This case arose out of a dispute concerning the proper construction of a mineral lease and contemporaneous contracts executed on September 26, 1933, by the independent executors and trustees under the will of Mrs. Henrietta M. King, wife of the founder of the King Ranch, and Humble Oil & Refining Company. Mrs. King died in 1925, leaving the ranch in trust for a term of ten years to named trustees, three of whom were also named independent...

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