McGUIRE v. BAKER

No. 27894 Summary Calendar.

421 F.2d 895 (1970)

L. L. McGUIRE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John F. BAKER et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 26, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. L. McGuire, pro se.

Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Nola White, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Hawthorne Phillips, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., W. V. Geppert, Staff Legal Asst. Atty. Gen., Houghton Brownlee, Jr., J. Milton Richardson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas and others.

Curt Steib, Glenn W. Lewis, San Angelo, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Robert W. Fuller, John E. Thomason, William T. Hall, Midland, Tex., for Gulf Oil Corp.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and MORGAN and CARSWELL, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge.

This suit arises out of events beginning with the attempted purchase in 1961 by M. D. Bryant of possible vacancies in the vicinity of land claimed by plaintiff, L. L. McGuire, in the Big Bend country of West Texas. Pursuant to provisions of Texas law1 a hearing was held and the vacancies were found to exist.

Following this hearing McGuire filed a suit in the United States District Court for the Western...

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