Federal Crude Oil Co. v. Yount-Lee Oil Co.

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Upon motions by each party for summary judgment on facts not disputed Federal Crude Oil Company’s bill 'against Yount-Lee Oil Company, Texas & N. O. Railway Company, and Rio Bravo Oil Company was dismissed and the plaintiff therein appeals.

A little over three-quarters of an acre of land included in the Railway Company’s right of way from which a great quantity of oil has been taken is in controversy. It is a part of or appurtenant to Lot 5 of a subdivision of 52 acres across which the railroad ran. After long controversy it was on May 16, 1932, decided in a test case…