Legal Opinion
Greenshields v. Warren Petroleum Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 3, 1957No. Nos. 5449, 5450PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Greenshields, plaintiff below, is one of numerous owners of royalty rights in the Ringwood oil and gas field in Major County, Oklahoma. He initiated this action in the State Court of Major County as a purported class action “for himself and all others similarly situated”, naming as defendants all those individuals and corporations holding leases from the royalty owners in the Ringwood Field; also named party defendants were the Warren Petroleum Corporation and Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, referred to as ‘plant operators’, who, though holding no lease rights in…
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