NORTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY v. GROUNDS

Civ. A. Nos. KC-1969, KC-1945, KC-1946, KC-1947, KC-1948, KC-1980, W-3009, and W-3159.

292 F.Supp. 619 (1968)

NORTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ralph GROUNDS, Henry Hitch et al., Defendants.

United States District Court D. Kansas.

As Corrected October 14, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arloe W. Mayne, G. Fred Charles, Ashland, Ky., J. M. O'Loughlin, Oklahoma City, Okl., Gerald Sawatzky Foulston, Siefkin, Powers, Smith & Eberhardt, Wichita, Kan., for Ashland Oil & Refining Co.

Roy Schaeffer Pampa, Tex., Gerald Sawatzky, Foulston, Siefkin, Powers, Smith & Eberhardt, Wichita, Kan., for Cabot Corp.

George Peabody, Oklahoma City, Okl., Mark H. Adams, Adams, Jones, Robinson & Manka, Wichita, Kan., for Cities Service Gas Co. and others.

R. O. Mason, George Conger, Bartlesville, Okl., P. K. Smith, Wichita, Kan., C. C. Cammack, Tulsa, Okl., for Cities Service Oil Co. and Columbian Fuel Corp.

William R. Horkey, Leon C. Gavras, Tulsa, Okl., Gerald Sawatzky, Foulston, Siefkin, Powers, Smith & Eberhardt, Wichita, Kan., for Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

Horace Ballaine, Tulsa, Okl., Richard Jones, Robert J. Roth, Hershberger, Patterson, Jones & Thompson, Wichita, Kan., for Hugoton Plains Gas & Oil and Mapco Production Co.

Charles B. Wallace, Donald G. Canuteson, William H. Tabb, Dallas, Tex., Richard Jones, Robert J. Roth, Hershberger, Patterson, Jones & Thompson, Wichita, Kan., Robert W. Richards, S. M. Groom, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okl., for Mobil Oil Corp.

Byron M. Gray, Topeka, Kan., G. R. Redding, Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis, Ind., for National Helium Corp.

Gerald Sawatzky, Foulston, Siefkin, Powers, Smith & Eberhardt, Wichita, Kan., for Dorchester Gas Producing Co.

James B. Diggs, Oklahoma City, Okl., Wm. F. Pielsticker, Wichita, Kan., for Gulf Oil Corp.

Patrick J. McCarthy, Omaha, Neb., Cochran, Dudley, Fowler, Rucks, Baker & Jopling, Oklahoma City, Okl., Mark H. Adams, Adams, Jones, Robinson & Manka, Wichita, Kan., for Northern Natural Gas Co. and others.

J. K. Smith, R. H. Landt, Fort Worth, Tex., Norton Standeven, Oklahoma City, Okl., George C. Spradling, of Lilleston, Spradling, Gott, Stallwitz & Hope, Wichita, Kan., for Pan American Petroleum Corp.

William S. Richardson, Kansas City, Mo., William L. Robertson, Liberal, Kan., Jeff A. Robertson, Topeka, Kan., Emmet A. Blaes and Robert G. Braden, Jochems, Sargent & Blaes, Wichita, Kan., for Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. and others.

Kenneth Heady, Bartlesville, Okl., Richard B. McDermott, Boesch, McDermott & Eskridge, Tulsa, Okl., Joseph Kennedy, Morris, Laing, Evans & Brock, Wichita, Kan., for Phillips Petroleum Co.

R. T. Robberson, Houston, Tex., Richard Jones, of Hershberger, Patterson, Jones & Thompson, Wichita, Kan., for Superior Oil Co.

Philip R. Wimbish, Elmer W. Adams, Tulsa, Okl., Gerald Sawatzky, of Foulston, Siefkin, Powers, Smith & Eberhardt, Wichita, Kan., for Texaco Inc.

Leo Winters, W. A. McWilliams, Oklahoma City, Okl., A. E. Kramer, Kramer, Nordling & Nordling, Hugoton, Kan., Dale M. Stucky, of Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, Harold R. Porter, Wichita, Kan., Gene Stipe and Richard L. Gossett, McAlester, Okl., for Landowners: Ralph Grounds, Henry Hitch, and others.

H. A. Berry, W. M. Sutton, W. E. Notestine, Amarillo, Tex., George B. Collins, of Collins & Collins, Wichita, Kan., for Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp.

Benjamin E. Franklin, U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Kan., Bernard V. Borst, Asst. U. S. Atty., Wichita, Kan., Floyd L. France, William H. Churchwell and Robert M. Perry, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.


MEMORANDUM

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

WESLEY E. BROWN, District Judge.

NATURE OF ACTIONS

These eight consolidated civil actions come before the Court following a protracted trial for findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to the issues relating to liability. Six of the cases are actions in the nature of interpleader. Two of the actions are for conversion and reverse condemnation.

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