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UNITED STATES v. MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO.

No. 1856.

110 F.2d 212 (1939)

UNITED STATES et al. v. MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

November 8, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Sherwood, of Washington, D. C., and William G. Stigler, of Stigler, Okl. (Charles E. Collett, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Cleon A. Summers, U. S. Atty., of Muskogee, Okl., Charles W. Leaphart, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and Thomas Harris and Robert Koerner, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellants.

Earl A. Brown, of Ardmore, Okl. (W. H. Francis, of Dallas, Tex., Blakeney, Wallace, Brown & Blakeney, of Oklahoma City, Okl., and Victor C. Mieher, of Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for appellees.

Before LEWIS, BRATTON, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

The United States, in its own behalf and for the use and benefit of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians, instituted this suit against Magnolia Petroleum Company, Amerada Petroleum Corporation, Samedan Oil Corporation, Simpson-Fell Oil Company, and Simon Westheimer to quiet title to a strip of land formerly part of a proposed railroad right-of-way traversing lands of the tribes, and for an accounting for oil and gas extracted therefrom...

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