Douglas Oil Co. v. State
Citation | 81 S.W.2d 1064 |
Decision Date | 27 March 1935 |
Docket Number | No. 7828.,7828. |
Parties | DOUGLAS OIL CO. et al. v. STATE et al. (WHITESIDE CASE). |
Court | Court of Appeals of Texas |
Appeal from District Court, Travis County; C. A. Wheeler, Judge.
Suit by the State against the Douglas Oil Company and others wherein named defendant filed a cross-action. From a judgment, named defendant and others appeal.
Affirmed.
See, also (Tex. Civ. App.) 70 S.W.(2d) 452; (Tex. Sup.) 76 S.W.(2d) 1043.
W. A. Keeling, of Austin, Francis H. De Groat, of Duluth, Minn., Chas A. Holden, of Tulsa, Okl., and Chas. Gibbs, of San Angelo, for appellant Douglas Oil Co.
I. S. Handy and A. D. Dyess, both of Houston, for appellant Federal Royalty Co.
A. D. Dyess, of Houston, for appellant P. S. Moore.
Robt. T. Neill, of San Angelo, and Turner, Rodgers & Winn, of Dallas, for appellant Stanolind Oil & Gas Co.
Rex Baker, R. E. Seagler, and Gilvie Hubbard, all of Houston, Ben H. Powell, of Austin, for appellee Humble Oil & Refining Co.
R. L. Batts, of Austin, Jno. E. Green, Jr., of Houston, and Wm. L. Wise, and P. O. Settle, both of Fort Worth, for appellee Gulf Production Co.
Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Young, of St. Louis, Mo., and P. G. McElwee, of Houston, for appellee Shell Petroleum Co.
E. H. Yeiser, of Austin, for appellees D. C. Reed, E. H. Perry, M. H. Reed, and Bernard Mollberg.
T. R. Boone, of Wichita Falls, for appellees Mrs. Ida May and George W. Ramsey, and Viola Seeley.
Burney Braly, and G. R. Pate, both of Fort Worth, and G. B. Smedley, of Austin, for appellee Continental Oil Co.
Jas. V. Allred, Atty. Gen., and R. W. Yarborough, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
Collins, Jackson & Snodgrass, of San Angelo, for appellees Western Oil & Royalty Co., M. D. Bryant, P. L. Childress, W. M. Hemphill, and C. C. McBurnett.
John A. Braly, of Fort Worth, for appellees Peerless Oil & Gas Co., Southland Royalty Co., and Argo Royalty Co.
A. M. Gee, of Findlay, Ohio, R. C. Gwilliam, of Tulsa, Okl., and Hiner & Pannill, of Fort Worth, for appellees H. B. Davenport, Nellie M. Moore and Mid-Kansas Oil & Gas Co.
Smith & Neill, of San Angelo, for appellees J. A. Chapman, Brown Oil & Royalty Co., and Indian Territory Royalty Co.
Don Emery, of Amarillo, for appellee Phillips Petroleum Co.
Walter L. Kimmel, of Tulsa, Okl., for appellee Hargrove Hudson.
Questions arising in this cause have been twice certified to the Supreme Court. Questions embodied in the first certificate were answered. 122 Tex. 369, 61 S.W.(2d) 804. The second certificate was dismissed; the order reciting that the dismissal was "because it certified the whole case to this Court." In a per curiam opinion [(Tex. Sup.) 76 S.W.(2d) 1043, 1044], the following additional reason is given: Since a proper adjudication of the case now before us involves directly the proper construction and application of the answers to the questions first certified, and incidentally an interpretation of the dismissal order, we quote in full the body of the second certificate and of the appended tentative draft of opinion; the latter embodying in full the body of the first certificate:
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