CITIES SERVICE OIL CO. v. DUNLAP

No. 8863.

100 F.2d 294 (1938)

CITIES SERVICE OIL CO. v. DUNLAP et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 8, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clayton L. Orn and David B. Trammell, both of Fort Worth, Tex., for appellant.

William A. Wade and Angus G. Wynne, both of Longview, Tex., and Cecil N. Cook, of Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Before SIBLEY, HOLMES, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Cities Service Company, is by assignment and succession the holder of a producing oil and gas lease on a tract of land in Gregg County, Texas, made in 1930 by the heirs of J. F. Rogers. In 1934 appellee B. P. Dunlap obtained a lease upon a narrow strip of land about 68 feet wide by 880 yards long along the west side of the J. F. Rogers tract (less two acres sold off at the northwest corner) from the heirs of J. F. Rogers and his...

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