Joseph M. BURKE, as Stockholder of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company, etc., Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
GULF, MOBILE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 12, 1972.
September 12, 1972.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Irvin J. Langford, Howell, Johnston, Langford & Finkbohner, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.
Sam W. Pipes, III and Norton Brooker, Lyons, Pipes & Cook, 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, Gaillard, Wilkins & 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, Sidney H. Schell and Victor T. Hudson, Pillans, Reams, Tappan, Wood, Roberts & Vollmer, Mobile, Ala., for Elsie M. Schwartz and others.
James W. Dorsey, Atlanta, Ga., for the Estate of O. J. Parker.
Before TUTTLE and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and R. BLAKE WEST, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:
Except where additional widths have been purchased in transactions not involved in this litigation, the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, successor to the originally organized Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, claims a right-of-way one hundred feet wide through what has become the Citronelle Oil Field near Mobile, Alabama.
Joseph M. Burke, the owner of twenty-five shares of stock of the Railroad Company, sought to have the Railroad...
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