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UNITED STATES v. SENTINEL OIL CO.

No. 9239.

109 F.2d 854 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. SENTINEL OIL CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 28, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key, Ugo Caruso, and Louise Foster, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Ben Harrison, U. S. Atty., E. H. Mitchell, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Eugene Harpole, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Grainger & Hunt and Reuben G. Hunt, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before GARRECHT, HANEY, and STEPHENS, Circuit Judges.

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

Appellee company, a California corporation, entered into agreements with the owners of three separately owned tracts of real property, looking toward the drilling of an oil well on each of said tracts. Thereby appellee acquired an undivided interest in the fee to each of said three tracts and agreed to drill an oil well on each tract. By the agreements the common fee owners were to receive a percentage of the oil and gas produced from the...

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