Hunter v. Shell Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• agent and third parties were constructive trustees of mineral interests acquired on basis of confidential information disclosed by agent
• “This court has approved the well established doctrine that federal courts have jurisdiction of suits brought, as here, by a citizen of one state against a citizen of another state and an alien, as joint defendants.”
• geologist employed by oil company
• geologist employed by oil company

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).