Tucker v. Canfield
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma; Frank A. Youmans, Judge. Suit by W. B. Tucker against G. W. Canfield and others, to have defendants held to be trustees for the benefit of plaintiff of an oil and gas lease. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma; Frank A. Youmans, Judge. Suit by W. B. Tucker against G. W. Canfield and others, to have defendants held to be trustees for the benefit of plaintiff of an oil and gas lease. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals. The plaintiff below brought this suit seeking to have the defendants Can-field held to be trustees for his benefit of an oil and gas lease, which had been executed to the Canfields as lessees. Upon a final hearing a decree was entered dismissing his bill, and the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtMunger, District Judge
(after staling the facts as above). [1] Appellant’s claim is that, because of the relationship between the Can-fields and plaintiff, the Canfields were in a fiduciary position toward him, and that the benefit of the new lease taken by the Canfields inured to plaintiff. Whatever relationship there was between these parties had grown out of the dealings which have been set forth relating to this land and to the gas well thereon. It is plaintiff’s theory that this relationship continued to the time when the Canfields became lessees in the new lease from the. owners of the land. The trial court,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Brewster v. Lanyon Zinc Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
- Roach v. Junction Oil & Gas Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1919
- Logan Natural Gas & Fuel Co. v. Great Southern Gas & Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1903
- People's Gas Co. v. DeanCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1911
- Pursel v. Reading Iron Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1916
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