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WALKER v. FELMONT OIL CORPORATION

Civ. No. 600.

136 F.Supp. 584 (1955)

Henry B. WALKER, Jr., Trustee, et al., Plaintiffs, v. FELMONT OIL CORPORATION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Kentucky, at Owensboro.

December 16, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walker & Walker, Evansville, Ind., Clarence Bartlett, Owensboro, Ky., for plaintiffs.

Byron, Sandidge & Holbrook, Owensboro, Ky., Walter Davison, Tulsa, Okl., Fred W. File, Mattoon, Ill., L. Allen Rhoads, Henderson County Atty., Henderson, Ky., for defendants Carter Oil and Felmont Oil Companies.

King & Craig, Henderson, Ky., for Olen D. Sharp.

M. B. Holifield, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Kentucky State Property & Buildings Commission and Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Funk, Chancellor & Marshall, Frankfort, Ky., for Ohio River Oil Co.

BROOKS, District Judge.

This declaratory judgment action involves the authority to execute oil and gas leases for that portion of the bed of the Ohio River that lies north of the thread of the stream. There are three groups of parties holding conflicting leases, each claiming the exclusive right to extract oil and gas from the river bed.

Plaintiffs Henry B. Walker, Jr., as successor trustee, et al., and their lessees claim the oil and gas rights by virtue...

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