Navajo Production Corp. v. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

Navajo Production Corporation, and others, filed suit for declaratory judgment against Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, and sought a declaration of the rights and legal relations of the parties under a certain contract and supplemental contract for the sale and purchase of natural gas from wells located on 1,847 acres of land in Carson County, Texas. The contract and supplemental agreement were entered into on August 4, 1930, by the seller, Horace G. Miller, Navajo’s assignor, and the buyer, Texas-Interstate Pipe Line Company, which was succeeded by Panhandle Eastern…