WIGGINS BROTHERS, INC.; C. Brodie Hyde; Patricia Hyde; and Frances W. Hyde and First National Bank in Dallas, Co-Trustees of C. Brodie Hyde Trust A, C. Brodie Hyde Trust B, Patricia Hyde Trust A, and Patricia Hyde Trust B, Plaintiffs,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY and Charles Duncan, Secretary of Energy, Defendants,
TEXACO INC. and Stanford Harrell, Plaintiffs,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY and Charles Duncan, Secretary of Energy, Defendants.
United States District Court, N. D. Texas, Lubbock Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 23, 1982.
September 23, 1982.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
A. B. Conant, Jr., Karen S. Bedell, Charles W. Pauly, Shank, Irwin, Conant, Williamson & Grevelle, Dallas, Tex., James H. Milam, Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, Lubbock, Tex., J. Frederick Lawson, Tulsa, Okl., Stephen H. Bard, Texaco Inc., White Plains, N. Y., for plaintiffs.
Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., C. Max Vassanelli, Andrew M. Wolfe, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Nancy C. Crisman, Deputy Asst. Gen. Counsel, Frank W. Krogh, Atty., Samuel Soopper, Staff Atty., U. S. Dept. of Energy, Washington, D. C., James A. Rolfe, U. S. Atty., Dallas, Tex., Clinton E. Averitte, Asst. U. S. Atty., Lubbock, Tex., for defendants.
R. Bruce McLean, Harry R. Silver, Clinton T. Batterton, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington, D. C., Michael Lowenberg, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, Tex., Gail F. Schulz, Mobil Oil Corp., Fairfax, Va., for amicus curiae.
Joseph W. Kennedy, Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Chartered, Wichita, Kan., for all the following listed companies.
Robert F. Ochs, Edward T. Cotham, Jr., The Gulf Companies, Houston, Tex., for Gulf Oil Corp.
Elaine Boze, Sun Oil Co., Dallas, Tex., for Sun Oil Co. (Delaware).
T. L. Cubbage, II, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Okl., for Phillips Petroleum Co.
J. Furman Lewis, Marathon Oil Co., Findlay, Ohio, for Marathon Oil Co.
Charles Zubieta, Champlin Petroleum Co., Fort Worth, Tex., for Champlin Petroleum Co.
Michael J. Henke, Ann M. Ashton, Vinson & Elkins, Washington, D. C., for Conoco, Inc.
United States District Court, N. D. Texas, Lubbock Division.
MEMORANDUM
WOODWARD, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs in Wiggins Bros., Inc. v. Dept. of Energy are working interest owners of an oil producing property located in Cochran County, Texas. Texaco is the operator and owner of all of the working interest rights in an oil producing property located in Hockley County, Texas and Stanford Harrell is the owner of a royalty interest in said property. Proceedings in the Texaco— Stanford Harrell case have...
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