District Court, E.D. Texas June 18, 1990, Civ. A. B-89-00423-CA (Peregoy v. Amoco Production Co.)

MEMORANDUM OPINION

COBB, District Judge.

“[T]he Pelham Humphries litigation is over and the Humphries heirs have no title in the league of land

...”

Judge Thornberry’s holding in

Humphries v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.,

393 F.2d 69 (5th Cir.1968), has a hollow ring to the plaintiffs here who are seeking to exhume the Pelham Humphries dispute two decades after this definitive epitaph.