UNITED STATES v. ICKES

No. 7113.

101 F.2d 248 (1938)

UNITED STATES ex rel. ROUGHTON v. ICKES, Secretary of the Interior.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

December 5, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy St. Lewis, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Frederick L. Kirgis, First Asst. Sol., and David M. Hudson, Asst. Sol., Department of Interior, both of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and VINSON, Associate Justices.


VINSON, Associate Justice.

Plaintiff, appellant herein, on June 2, 1936, filed application in the General Land Office, Department of the Interior, for a preferential right over others without competitive bidding to a lease of certain lands, not within any known geological structure of a producing oil and gas field, for the purpose of exploring for oil and gas. The lands formerly comprised the old Fort Hays Military Reservation located in the State of Kansas which...

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