Legal Opinion
Strickland v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 17, 1944No. 10562PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.
The appellants, several hundred in number, are the plaintiffs and intervenors in a suit in the District Court to recover a tract of land in the Southern District of Texas, and compensation for oil taken therefrom. They sue as the collateral relatives and devisees of a Wilson Strickland who was born in Georgia in 1783 the son of Jacob and Priscilla Strickland, and who married Polly Conally in that State in 1809, she dying there in 1840, and who himself died childless but testate and was buried in Georgia in 1841. The will, probated in Georgia that year, gives his property…
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