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CHEVRON OIL COMPANY v. CLARK

No. 27625.

432 F.2d 280 (1970)

CHEVRON OIL COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Noel D. CLARK et al., Defendants, W. C. Richardson, P. J. Gay, D. E. Vasser and Miss-La-Tex Oil and Gas Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 28, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brunini, Everett, Grantham & Quin, George P. Hewes, III, William Timothy Jones, Jackson, Miss., for Richardson, Gay and Vasser, appellants.

Reeves, Brumfield & Reeves, Robert W. Brumfield, McComb, Miss., for Miss-La-Tex Oil and Gas Corp., appellant.

Martha Gerald, Jackson, Miss., for Chevron Oil Co.

Breed O. Mounger, Tylertown, Miss., L. O. Smith, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff-appellee. Mounger & Mounger, Tylertown, Miss., Bacon & Smith, Jackson, Miss., of counsel.

Before AINSWORTH, DYER and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

This is an interpleader action, filed by Chevron Oil Company (Chevron), to determine the ownership of 42% of the working interest1 in a producing oil well located in the SE ¼ of the SE ¼ of Section 36, Township 5 North, Range 1 East, Franklin County, Mississippi. The district court, sitting without a jury, ruled in favor of appellees Clark, et al. We conclude that the district court was partially in error...

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