Legal Opinion
Keegan v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 13, 1946No. 11514PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCORD, Circuit Judge. -
Patrick Keegan brought this suit against the Humble Oil and Refining Company to recover an undivided interest in a seventeen acre tract of land, a part of Lot 7 of a subdivision of the north half of the Thomas Choate League in Harris County, Texas. The complaint alleged record title in the plaintiff, that Humble was a trespasser without title, and prayed for judgment vesting in Keegan an undivided one-sixth interest to the land.
Humble in response to the complaint filed a motion for an order of the court to require plaintiff to bring in certain named parties who it was…
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