UNITED STATES v. GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION

No. 467-B-Civ.

73 F.Supp. 225 (1946)

UNITED STATES v. GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA et al.

District Court, S. D. California, Central Division.

Supplemental Opinion January 10, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. B. Critchlow, Eugene D. Williams, Joseph C. Gill, James A. Murray, Richard H. Hill and Marvin J. Sonosky, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for plaintiffs.

A. L. Weil and Martin J. Weil, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant General Petroleum Corporation of California.

John M. Hall, Max Felix, H. G. Hayes, Marcus Mattson and Lawler, Felix & Hall, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Standard Oil Co. of California and Standard Oil Co. of Texas.

George Harnagel, Jr., William E. Wright, F. F. Thomas, Jr., and McCutchen, Olney, Mannon & Greene, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Shell Oil Co., Inc.

Harrison Guio, W. F. Kiessig, of San Francisco, Cal., and Paul Broxon, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Tide Water Associated Oil Co.

Jerry H. Powell and Paul M. Gregg, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Union Oil Co. of California.

L. R. Martineau, Jr., P. C. Black and Warren Stratton, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Continental Oil Co.

Frederick D. Anderson and Bertram L. Linz, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Seaboard Oil Co. of Delaware.

Herbert W. Clark, Emory L. Morris and Morrison, Hohfeld, Foerster, Shuman & Clark, all of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Honolulu Oil Corporation.

Thomas A. J. Dockweiler and Dockweiler & Dockweiler, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Pacific Western Oil Corporation and George F. Getty, Inc.

Martin J. Weil, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Pioneer Kettleman Co.

George W. Nilsson, of Los Angeles, Cal., for Kettleman North Dome Ass'n.

Glen Behymer, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Ervin S. Armstrong.

R. K. Barrows, J. A. Tucker and Charles C. Stanley, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Texas Co.

Chester Dolley, Edward W. Lloyd, John H. Blake and Hanna & Morton all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Silas L. Gillan and Etta Helm as executrix of Estate of Lesrey G. Helm, deceased.

Neil S. McCarthy, Earl L. Banta, Howard P. Hall and Franklin W. Peck, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Belmont Inv. Co., Cynthia Beal, Neil S. McCarthy and A. Calder Mackay as trustees of said Belmont Inv. Co., a corporation in process of dissolution.

Karl B. Rodi, Olin Wellborn III, Vernon Barrett and Frank C. Hubbard, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Carrie Estelle Doheny, Lucy Smith Battson and Los Nietos Co.


BEAUMONT, District Judge.

This action was brought by the United States to obtain a judicial determination of the extent of authority of the Secretary of the Interior to place minimum limitations upon valuations for royalty purposes of the interests of the United States in oil and gas produced from public lands in the Kettleman Hills field of California held by defendants under oil and gas leases issued pursuant to the provisions...

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