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HOUSTON OIL COMPANY OF TEXAS v. GOODRICH

No. 76.

245 U.S. 440 (1918)

38 S.Ct. 140

62 L.Ed. 385

HOUSTON OIL COMPANY OF TEXAS ET AL. v. GOODRICH ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William L. Marbury and Mr. H.O. Head, with whom Mr. Oswald S. Parker and Mr. Thomas M. Kennerly were on the briefs, for petitioners.

Mr. William D. Gordon, with whom Mr. Harrison M. Whitaker, Mr. Eugene E. Easterling and Mr. Thomas J. Baten were on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

After hearing arguments upon the issues involved in this cause it seems clear that the writ of certiorari was improvidently granted and must be dismissed. Furness, Withy & Co. v. Yang-Tsze Ins. Assn., 242 U.S. 430.

The controversy (presented in an action at law) is over title to a tract of land in Texas. Both parties claim under one Felder —...

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