PAN EASTERN EXPLORATION CO. v. HUFO OILS

No. 87-1033.

855 F.2d 1106 (1988)

PAN EASTERN EXPLORATION CO. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Plaintiffs-Appellants Cross-Appellees, v. HUFO OILS, et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Billy Mack Gideon, Canadian Commercial Bank and First National Bank in Albuquerque, Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants. PAN EASTERN EXPLORATION CO. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Plaintiffs-Appellants Cross-Appellees, v. MITCHELL ENERGY & DEVELOPMENT CORP., et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Billy Mack Gideon, Canadian Commerce Bank and First National Bank in Albuquerque, Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 2, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butler & Binion, James V. Hammett, Jr., Deborah Essig Taylor, Houston, Tex., for appellee Mitchell Energy, et al.

Eugene B. Labay, San Antonio, Tex., for Pan Eastern Exploration Co. and Anadrako Petroleum Corp.

Reynolds, Allen & Cook, Andrew M. Taylor, Ivan D. Hafley, Austin, Tex., for appellee Billy Mack Gideon.

Bracewell & Patterson, Joe H. Foy, Mary Katherine Kennedy, Sarah B. Pierce, Houston, Tex., for appellees — Houston Natural Gas Corp., et al.

Cotton, Bledsoe, Tighe & Dawson, Charles L. Tighe, Susan R. Richardson, Midland, Tex., for appellees — First Nat'l Bank in Albuquerque.

James L. Stone, Stephen W. Seifert, Denver, Colo., for appellee Canadian Commercial Bank.

Tim Gideon, Austin, Tex., for appellee Hufo Oils, et al.

Dan Lain, Hurst, Tex., Glover Roberts, Dallas, Tex., for appellees J. Michael Curran, Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of Ted True, Inc. and Dean Gandy, Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of Ted True.

Marshall S. McCrea, Jr., Midland, Tex., for appellee Aplex Oil & Gas, Inc., et al.

Jerry D. Courtney, Clarendon, Tex., for appellee Robert Brent, et al.

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, Marvin S. Sloman, William B. Dawson, Rebecca P. Adams, Dallas, Tex., for appellee Canadian Commercial Bank.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and GEE and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs Anadarko Petroleum Corporation ("Anadarko") and its wholly-owned subsidiary Pan Eastern Exploration Company ("PEEC") own the natural gas rights in certain sections of land in the Panhandle Field of Texas. Certain of the defendants own the oil and casinghead gas rights in the same sections. The plaintiffs sued, claiming that some defendants wrongfully produced their gas, and that other defendants purchased, processed, and transported...

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