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WILLIAMS v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY

No. 26968.

432 F.2d 165 (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.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing Denied December 8, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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

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

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 8, 1970.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This is a class action filed by plaintiff landowners1 against Humble Oil & Refining Company, their mineral lessee, seeking an accounting for the alleged drainage of oil and gas from beneath their leased premises caused by Humble's operations on adjoining premises. In the alternative, the plaintiffs seek damages for the alleged breach of Humble...

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