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SHELL OIL COMPANY v. JONES

Civ. A. No. 13120.

191 F.Supp. 585 (1960)

SHELL OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Plaintiff, v. M. Carl JONES et al., Defendants, and The United States of America, Intervener.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

October 10, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. G. Winters, Jr., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.

John H. Baumgarten, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for the United States and Chester A. Usry, District Director of Internal Revenue.

Marcus F. Vascocu, Longview, Tex., Guardian of the Estates of Rebecca, Charlene Jones and Sharon Eugenia Jones, minors, pro se and as attorney for Rebecca Charlene Jones and Sharon Eugenia Jones, minors.

John M. Smith, Longview, Tex., for Mrs. Rebecca Charlene Willoughby Jones, individually and as dative testamentary executrix of the Estate of Winston Albert Jones, Deceased, and as temporary administratrix of the Estate of W. A. Jones, Deceased, and as Tutrix of the Estates of Sharon Eugenia Jones and Rebecca Charlene Jones, minors.

Joseph H. Jackson, Shreveport, La., pro se.

Frank S. Kennedy, Shreveport, La., pro se.

Angus G. Wynne, Dallas, Tex., pro se.

Caroline Walters, Shreveport, La., pro se.

Fred Walters, Shreveport, La., pro se.

L. F. Burke, Longview, Tex., Marion K. Smith, Shreveport, La., H. P. Smead, Longview, Tex., for M. Carl Jones and others.

HANNAY, Chief Judge.

This is an interpleader action filed by Shell Oil Company to determine the rights of the defendants and intervener to certain funds which it has in its possession.

On July 9, 1931, Lawson Lacy and husband, Rogers Lacy, as lessors, executed and delivered to Winston Albert Jones, trustee, an oil, gas, and mineral lease covering 21½ acres in the Mary Van Winkle Survey in Gregg County, Texas. This lease is known as the Lawson Lacy-T....

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