Brixey v. Union Oil Co.

OPINION

JOHN E. MILLER, Senior District Judge.

The original complaint in this action was filed in the Chancery Court of Logan County, Southern District, on October 29, 1966. The complaint sought to have canceled a certain oil and gas lease agreement entered into between the plaintiffs as lessors and the defendant, The Pure Oil Corporation, as lessee. No “amount in controversy” was alleged in the complaint.

On November 18, 1966, the defendant, Union Oil Company of California (hereinafter referred to as Union), which had previously merged with and acquired The Pure Oil Corporation, filed its…