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WILBUR v. UNITED STATES

No. 5433.

54 F.2d 437 (1931)

WILBUR, Secretary of the Interior, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. OSAGE OIL & REFINING CO.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Decided November 9, 1931.

Petition for Rehearing Denied December 5, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. H. Graves, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

C. H. Merillat, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, HITZ, and GRONER, Associate Justices.

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

During the year 1918, the Osage Oil & Refining Company, a corporation, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, leased from the Osage Tribe of Indians certain lands supposed to be valuable for oil and gas, located in the state of Oklahoma. The lease provided that it should run for a period of five years and "so long thereafter as oil is found in paying quantities." The refining company put down a well in 1921 which produced...

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