HODGSON v. FEDERAL OIL CO.

No. 166.

274 U.S. 15 (1927)

HODGSON v. FEDERAL OIL AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James M. Hodgson, pro se, with whom Mr. F.E. Pendell was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Harold D. Roberts, with whom Messrs. Tyson S. Dines, Peter H. Holme, and J. Churchill Owen were on the brief, for appellees.


Mr. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant seeks to establish his right to a one-eighth interest in an oil and gas lease upon one hundred and sixty acres of land in Wyoming granted August 21, 1920, by the United States to appellee Federal Oil and Development Company under § 18, Act of Congress approved February 25, 1920, c. 85, 41 Stat. 437, 443. The lease was afterwards assigned to The Mountain and Gulf Oil Company upon conditions not...

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