Legal Opinion
Bazemore v. Whittington
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1957No. 16064PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
The contention, pressed successfully by plaintiff-appellee Edman and his other Texas associates trading as Mid-Century Oil & Gas Company, was whether, through the operation of the doctrine 1 of after-acquired title, Edman, by a 1951 assignment to him of an earlier (1947) oil and gas lease obtained a lease of the whole rather than one-half of the minerals because, subsequent to the assignment, an outstanding reservation of one-half of the minerals prescribed for non-user. Reaching this result, the District Court rejected the basic defense made there and here by…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- McDuffie v. WalkerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1909
- Waterman v. Tidewater Associated Oil Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1947
- Long-Bell Petroleum Co. v. TriticoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1949
- United States v. Nebo Oil Co., IncCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1951
- Frost Lumber Industries, Inc. v. Union Power Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1935
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3Cited by5 opinions
- J. R. Butler v. Garvis I. Bazemore, C. T. Ruffin and Goodwyn H. Harris, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
- Bazemore v. WhittingtonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
- Butler v. BazemoreDistrict Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1964
- United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, and Chevron Oil Company, Additional Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. Leo Buras, Jr., (1-26)-Appellees-Cross-Appellants v. Philibert Buras, Intervenors-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- United States v. BurasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972