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KINGERY v. CONTINENTAL OIL CO.

Nos. 78-1015, 78-3245 and 78-3246.

626 F.2d 1261 (1980)

Francia Goodwin Coe KINGERY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant. Lillian Blanche BRENT and Phillip Thompson, Individually and as Trustees, Etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NATURAL GAS PIPELINE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Defendant-Appellee. J. M. HAWLEY, Independent Executor and Trustee of the Estate of W. H. Taylor, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATURAL GAS PIPELINE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 2, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. B. Browder, Jr., Midland, Tex., Fred O. Hull, Houston, Tex., for Continental Oil Co.

Earl A. Brown, Jr., pro se amicus curiae.

Frank G. Harmon, Baker & Botts, Stephen M. Hackerman, Houston, Tex., Leo Hoffman, Dallas, Tex., C. M. Hudspeth, Houston, Tex., Joe Harlan, Amarillo, Tex., E. R. Norwood, Liberty, Tex., Charles L. Black Aycock, Houston, Tex., for LaGloria Royalty Owners & Assn., Inc.

Grambling, Mounce, Sims, Hardie, Galatzan & Harris, John S. Birkelbach, William J. Mounce, El Paso, Tex., for Kingery.

Ronald D. Nickum, Howard F. Saunders, Amarillo, Tex., for Brent and Thompson, et al. and Hawley.

Robert Lee Bobbitt, Jr., San Antonio, Tex., for Sealy and Smith Foundation for the John Sealy Hospital.

H. A. Berry, Amarillo, Tex., Dennis Dylewski, John L. Verner, James T. Wright, Houston, Tex., for Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America.

Before COLEMAN, Chief Judge, and FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr. and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.

COLEMAN, Chief Judge.

These are three cases with rather similar facts, almost identical legal arguments, and diametrically opposing judicial results. We affirm No. 78-3245, Brent v. Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, 457 F.Supp. 155, and No. 78-3246, Hawley v. Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America. We reverse No. 78-1015, Kingery v. Continental Oil Company, 434 F.Supp. 349

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