Saenz v. Kenedy, 12803

• Decision Date: 24 January 1950
• Docket Number: 12877-12880.,12874,12849,12835,No. 12803,12873,12860,12803
• Citation: 178 F.2d 417
• Parties: SAENZ et al. v. KENEDY et al., and nine other cases.
• Court: U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit

178 F.2d 417 (1949)

SAENZ et al. v. KENEDY et al., and nine other cases.

Nos. 12803, 12835, 12849, 12860, 12873, 12874, 12877-12880.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 9, 1949.

Rehearing Denied January 24, 1950.

D. B. Chapin, Corpus Christi, Tex., E. Garland Brown, Corpus Christi, Tex., for all appellants.

Rex G. Baker, Felix A. Raymer, R. E. Seagler, Houston, Tex., H. G. Nebeker, Corpus Christi, Tex., for appellees Kenedy and others.

Felix A. Raymer, Wm. E. Loose, William S. Clarke, Houston, Tex., C. B. Neel, Corpus Christi, Tex., T. L. Dyer, Austin, Tex., J. W. Timmins, Dallas, Tex., F. V. Phipps, Tulsa, Okl., J. C. Hutcheson, Houston, Tex., James N. Ludlum, Fort Worth, Tex., Martin A. Row, Dallas, Tex., Lloyd Armstrong, Houston, Tex., John S. McCampbell, Ralph R. Wood, Dean B. Kirkham, Corpus Christi, Tex., R. H. Whilden, Barksdale Stevens, Houston, Tex., for appellees Phillips Petroleum Co. and others.

C. E. Bryson, Houston, Tex., J. W. Timmins, Martin A. Row, Frank J. Scurlock, Dallas, Tex., William S. Clarke, William E. Loose, Barksdale Stevens, Houston, Tex., B. D. Tarlton, Corpus Christi, Tex., Paul A. McDermott, Fort Worth, Tex., Lloyd Armstrong, Houston, Tex., John S. McCampbell, Ralph R. Wood, Dean B. Kirkham, Corpus Christi, Tex., R. H. Whilden, Houston, Tex., Cecil C. Cammack, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellees Pure Oil Co. and others.

Felix A. Raymer, R. E. Seagler, Houston, Tex., J. W. Timmons, Martin A. Row, Frank J. Scurlock, Dallas, Tex., H. G. Nebeker, Hayden W. Head, B. D. Tarlton, Birge Holt, Corpus Christi, Tex., Rex G. Baker, Lloyd Armstrong, Houston, Tex., Cecil C. Cammack, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellees Puenticitas Oil Co. and others.

William S. Clarke, Houston, Tex., Roy C. Ledbetter, Dallas, Tex., Barksdale Stevens, Houston, Tex., H. G. Nebeker, Corpus Christi, Tex., J. W. Timmins, Martin A. Row, Dallas, Tex., R. D. Cox, Jr., McAllen, Tex., R. H. Whilden, Houston, Tex., B. D. Tarlton, Corpus Christi, Tex., Lloyd Armstrong, Houston, Tex., for appellees La Gloria Corp. and others.

Leslie S. Lockett, Hayden W. Head, I. W. Keys, Corpus Christi, Tex., for appellees Southern Mineral Corp. and others.

Henry C. Walker, Jr., Shreveport, La., Cecil N. Cook, Houston, Tex., Leslie S. Lockett, Corpus Christi, Tex., Paul A. McDermott, Fort Worth, Tex., Harbert Davenport, Brownsville, Tex., Lloyd Armstrong, Houston, Tex., for appellees Arkansas Fuel Oil Co. and others.

Roy C. Ledbetter, Dallas, Tex., Paul A. McDermott, Fort Worth, Tex., John J. Cox, San Antonio, Tex., B. D. Tarlton, Corpus Christi, Tex., for appellees Magnolia Petroleum Co. and others.

Birge Holt, Corpus Christi, Tex., for appellees Glasscock and others.

Birge Holt, Leslie S. Lockett, Corpus Christi, Tex., for appellees State Nat. Bank of Robstown and others.

Before McCORD and WALLER, Circuit Judges, and RICE, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Pursuant to motions by plaintiffs and defendants, in each of the foregoing causes for summary judgments, the lower Court, on the 8th day of August, 1948, made a docket entry granting the defendants' motions and denying the plaintiffs' motions in each of these causes. A motion for rehearing was denied during the month of August, 1948, in each case, and a final and formal judgment was spread upon the Clerk's minutes in all of the cases between the 8th of September and the 13th of October, 1948, — the last of which was entered on the 13th of October, 1948. No notices of appeal were filed within thirty days from these final judgments. The plaintiffs filed further motions on December 9, 1948, in a number of the cases, again seeking to have the judgments set aside. These motions were denied on January 4, 1949. Amended motions were also subsequently filed in January, 1949, under Rule 60(b), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S. C.A., seeking to have the judgments vacated on the allegations that the judgments are void because of an alleged collusive agreement between the judge of the trial Court

"and the defendants herein and other oil companies, to the effect that he, said judge, would render judgment in favor of said defendants irrespective of fact and law; and that, in furtherance of said agreement, said judge deliberately and knowingly ignored the established facts and applicable law in respect thereto with the intent to despoil, pillage and defraud the plaintiffs, and that in rendering said judgment, said judge was acting simply as the alter ego of said defendants the oil oligarchy of this state and nation.

"This motion is based on the record of this case, and the briefs of the respective parties, and the proceedings had...