Legal Opinion
Peregoy v. Amoco Production Co.
District Court, E.D. Texas
Decided June 18, 1990No. Civ. A. B-89-00423-CAPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
COBB, District Judge.
“[T]he Pelham Humphries litigation is over and the Humphries heirs have no title in the league of land ...”
Judge Thornberry’s holding in Humphries v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., 393 F.2d 69 (5th Cir.1968), has a hollow ring to the plaintiffs here who are seeking to exhume the Pelham Humphries dispute two decades after this definitive epitaph.
On February 14, 1835, Pelham Hum-phries received a land grant for one league of land in Southeast Texas from the Government of Coahuilla and Texas. He conveyed it in 1836 to William Inglish, whose children or heirs…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- James Clark v. Amoco Production Co., Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- C. A. Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- United States v. Title Insurance & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Sylvester Marx v. Centran CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1984
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Feathers v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1998
- Geraghty & Miller, Inc. v. Conoco Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2000
- Harrogate Corp. v. Systems Sales Corp.Court of Appeals of Tennessee · 1995
- Fernandez v. Memorial Healthcare System, Inc., Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1995
- Robbins v. HNG Oil Co., Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)1994
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