Legal Opinion
Patrick A. McKenna v. Floyd A. Wallis and Pan American Petroleum Corporation, Pan American Petroleum Corporation v. Floyd A. Wallis
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 20, 1965No. 19631_1PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
These actions, involving common questions of law and fact, were consolidated in the district court and decided pursuant to an opinion reported at 200 F.Supp. 468. They involve rights asserted separately by Patrick A. McKenna and Pan American Petroleum Corporation in an oil and gas lease from the United States to Floyd A. Wallis covering 826.87 acres of exceedingly rich “mud lumps” at the mouth of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
The lease was issued to Wallis on December 19, 1958, effective January 1, 1959. The lease was of public domain land, that…
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