BLACK v. SHELL OIL COMPANY

No. 7669.

397 S.W.2d 877 (1965)

Napoleon BLACK et al., Appellants, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Rehearing Denied December 14, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Branch, Kilgore, Buck Florence, Hughes Springs, J. M. Lasater, Naples, Wesson Bartlett, Linden, Elmer Patman, Austin, T. R. Hudspeth, Tulsa, Okl., for appellants.

George K. Gilbert, Bartlesville, Okl., R. S. Sutton, Amarillo, Joe W. Lovelace, Linden, P. B. Walker, Houston, W. Ernest West, Canton, Austin C. Hatchell, Longview, John B. Spiers, Norman, Rounsaville, Hassell & Spiers, Jacksonville, Thomas Y. Banks, Tyler, Charles E. Thompson, Tom N. Cope, Atlanta, L. F. Burke, Longview, Tom Steele, Linden, Howard Carney, Carney & Mays, Atlanta, C. E. Nadeau, E. E. Shouse, Houston, for appellees.


FANNING, Justice.

This suit was brought by Shell Oil Company and Cities Service Oil Company against Napoleon Black and other named heirs of Hugh Black, Albert Leo Lee and other named heirs and successors of Janie (Jannie) Robinson Lee, Sinclair Oil Company, Mrs. G. T. Bartlett, a widow, Wesson Bartlett, Elmer Patman, and numerous other parties claiming various mineral and royalty interests in a tract of land in Cass County, Texas, called to contain 100 acres, but...

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