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HOWELL v. UNION PRODUCING COMPANY

No. 24242.

392 F.2d 95 (1968)

Ralph F. HOWELL et al., Appellants, v. UNION PRODUCING COMPANY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 12, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will A. Knight, Tyler, Tex., W. Scott Clark, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellants.

B. J. Wynne, Wills Point, Tex., Spencer C. Relyea, III, Dallas, Tex., Thomas Fletcher, Lynn R. Coleman, Robert Bruce LaBoon, Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Before RIVES, WISDOM and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge.

This interpleader action has origins many conveyances and documents ago with the execution of a conventional oil and gas lease. The lease was signed jointly in 1951 by several lessors who owned interests in three tracts of land. The act of executing a joint lease arguably created a "community" wherein royalties from production referable to any one tract would be apportioned to the owners of all land covered by the lease.1...

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