BURKE v. GULF, MOBILE AND OHIO RAILROAD CO.

Civ. A. No. 6258-70.

324 F.Supp. 1125 (1971)

Joseph M. BURKE, as Stockholder of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Co., a corporation for the use and benefit of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Co., a Corporation, Plaintiff, v. GULF, MOBILE AND OHIO RAILROAD CO., and the Persons, Firms and Corporations hereinafter listed in Paragraphs 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Complaint, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Alabama, S. D.

March 30, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irvin J. Langford, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff.

Sam W. Pipes, III and Norton Brooker, Mobile, Ala., for G. M. & O. Railroad Co.

William H. Cox, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for Pearl Production Co.

Ben H. Harris, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for Merchants National Bank.

Thornton Price-William, pro se.

H. S. Jernigan, pro se.

T. E. Twitty, Sr., Mobile, Ala., for Alabama Power Co.

S. P. Gaillard, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for S. P. Gaillard, Jr. and others.

Joseph H. Howie, Jackson, Miss., for M. M. McGowan.

Hardy B. Smith, Mobile, Ala., for Raymond H. Lloyd.

Edwin J. Curran, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for Alma D. Johnson and Fred E. Roan.

J. E. Skinner, Jackson, Miss., for George W. Harrison, Jr. and E. E. Harrison.

Ben Kilborn, Mobile, Ala., for Vincent F. Kilborn and River Towboats Inc.

James L. Spencer, Jackson, Miss., for R. W. Hyde, Jr.

James L. May, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for Standard Oil Co.

Harry H. Riddick, Mobile, Ala., for The Roger Williams Development Co.

A. Paul Cadenhead, Atlanta, Ga., for Estate of O. J. Parker, Jr., deceased.

Swep S. Taylor, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for R. G. Duke, Jr. and Gammill Investment Co.

D. R. Coley, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for D. R. Coley, Jr. and Warren E. Odom.

David W. Green and Sidney H. Schell, Mobile, Ala., for Elsie M. Schwartz and others, Richard K. Sions and W. J. Harris, Jr. as Trustees for the Ralph B. Chandler Foundation, Texaco, Inc., and Sarah H. Wood, Charles E. Arch and Robert E. Wood, III.


OPINION AND ORDER ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS

PITTMAN, District Judge.

This is a stockholder's derivative suit brought against, and for the benefit of, the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company (GM&O). Plaintiff seeks to assert for the railroad a claim to the oil, gas and minerals on and under two strips of land twenty-five or fifty feet wide, on either side of GM&O's existing 100 feet right-of-way through...

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