Legal Opinion

A. F. Buchanan and Wife, Celeste Buchanan v. Sinclair Oil & Gas Company

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided February 25, 1955No. 15101_1PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought by A. F. Buchanan and wife, R. R. Rice, Clara B. Rice, a widow, and Valfalfa Farms, a partnership composed of A. F., K. C., and William I. Buchanan, and A. F. Buchanan, Jr., against Sinclair Oil & Gas Company and fifty-nine others made defendants as parties so affected by the litigation as to be indispensable, the suit was for: (1) a declaratory judgment that a certain oil and gas lease No. 377, one of three leases executed by plaintiffs to Sinclair, has by its own terms terminated or come to an end; (2) a judgment removing all clouds on plaintiffs’ title cast…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Waggoner Estate v. Sigler Oil Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1929
  2. The Texas Company v. DavisTexas Supreme Court · 1923
  3. Southland Royalty Co. v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1952
  4. Texas Co. v. DavisTexas Supreme Court · 1923
  5. Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. HarrisonTexas Supreme Court · 1947

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Rieser v. Baltimore Ohio Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1955
  2. Minnie E. Haby, Joined Pro Forma by Her Husband, Homer H. Haby v. Stanolind Oil and Gas CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956
  3. Hastings v. PichinsonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1963
  4. Kincaid v. Gulf Oil Corp., Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1984
  5. Kunc v. Harper-Turner Oil CompanySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1956

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