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HUMPHRIES v. TEXAS GULF SULPHUR COMPANY

No. 24985.

393 F.2d 69 (1968)

M. T. HUMPHRIES et al., Appellants, v. TEXAS GULF SULPHUR COMPANY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 9, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. B. Votaw, Vidor, Tex., for appellants.

Thomas H. Lee, Jesse J. Lee, Houston, Tex., Major T. Bell, Ewell Strong, Samuel C. Lipscomb, Beaumont, Tex., Crawford Martin, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., George A. Weller, Beaumont, Tex., Joseph C. Brown, Houston, Tex., John P. Blair, Beaumont, Tex., Benjamin R. Powel, Galveston, Tex., W. Forrest Smith, Dallas, Tex., Preston Shirley, Galveston, Tex., James W. Lee, Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Before JONES, WISDOM and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

This diversity action proves that unlike old soldiers, expectant heirs never even fade away. It is one of a trilogy that hopefully will terminate the continuing battle between the heirs and the active users of the Humphries survey.1 In deciding who owns the Humphries survey we must consider problems of Texas land law and more particularly that fascinating though somewhat abstruse part concerning the validity...

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