Howell Petroleum Corp. v. Leben Oil Corp.

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Howell Petroleum Corporation brought a diversity action in federal district court against Leben Oil Corporation, Samson Resources Company, and others, seeking to enforce its alleged rights to a deferred working interest in certain gas and oil leases pursuant to a farmout agreement. Plaintiff alleged a right to revenues from the asserted working interest, and requested relief in the form of an accounting of all revenues defendants had received from the wells; appointment of a receiver to take possession of defendants’ records, the wells, and proceeds thereof;…