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WILLIAMS v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY

No. 26968.

435 F.2d 772 (1970)

Floyd WILLIAMS, Frederick C. Williams, et al., Plaintiffs-Cross Appellees, I. R. Price, Edward H. Taussig and Edwin F. Gayle, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross Appellees, v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 8, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moise S. Steeg, Jacqueline McPherson, Steeg & Shushan, New Orleans, La., Victor A. Sachse, Victor A. Sachse, III, Fernando J. Freyre, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Benard J. Caillouet, Lancelot P. Olinde, R. King Milling, H. H. Hillyer, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Humble Oil & Refining Co., defendant-appellee; Milling, Saal, Saunders, Benson & Woodward, New Orleans, La., of counsel.

Marvin L. Skelton, Midland, Tex., Atlantic Richfield Co.; F. Zengel, New Orleans, La., Chevron Oil Co.; Clyde E. Willbern, Houston, Tex., Getty Oil Co.; Riley B. Fell, Tulsa, Okl., Marathon Oil Co.; R. M. Talley, New Orleans, La., Mobil Oil Corp.; H. Y. Rowe, El Dorado, Ark., Murphy Oil Corp.; William P. Hardeman, New Orleans, La., Pan American Petroleum Corp.; E. M. Sutter, New Orleans, La., Shell Oil Co.; Peter Y. Smith, Southern Natural Gas Co.; Austin W. Lewis, Gene W. Lafitte, New Orleans, La., for amici curiae; Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, La., of counsel.

Before WISDOM and DYER, Circuit Judges, and KRENTZMAN, District Judge.

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING AND PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

The Court has considered all of the issues raised in Humble's Petition for Rehearing and Suggestion of Rehearing en Banc and the brief of the amici curiae in support of the petition for rehearing.

Humble and amici curiae argue strenuously that this Court erred in holding that "the Louisiana courts would characterize...

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