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BURNS v. COASTAL PETROLEUM COMPANY

No. H-329.

194 So.2d 71 (1966)

Haydon BURNS, Governor of the State of Florida, Ray E. Green, State Comptroller, Broward Williams, State Treasurer, Earl Faircloth, Attorney General, Doyle Conner, Commissioner of Agriculture, As and Constituting the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida, Appellants, v. COASTAL PETROLEUM COMPANY, a Florida Corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

Rehearing Denied February 7, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and J. Kenneth Ballinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellants.

Ervin, Pennington, Varn & Jacobs, Tallahassee, and Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison, Kelly & Himes, Tampa, for appellee.

RAWLS, Chief Judge.

The Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund appeal from a final declaratory decree holding that the water bottom of Lake Hancock was included within an oil and mineral lease executed by the Trustees to Coastal Petroleum Company.

The sole question on this appeal is whether Lake Hancock was included within the terms of Drilling Lease No. 224-B as Modified.

In order to construe the lease instrument it is necessary to review the history...

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