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UNITED STATES v. CHAMPLIN REFINING CO.

No. 3159.

156 F.2d 769 (1946)

UNITED STATES v. CHAMPLIN REFINING CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 29, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred W. Smith, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D.C. (J. Edward Williams, Acting Head, Lands Div., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D.C., Whit Y. Mauzy, U. S. Atty., of Tulsa, Okl., and Roger P. Marquis, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellant.

Nathan Scarritt and Harry O. Glasser, both of Enid, Okl. (Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Randall S. Cobb, Atty. Gen., J. Walker Field, Asst. Atty. Gen., Walter Marlin, Law and Exe. Counsel for the Commissioners of the Land Office, State of Oklahoma, of Oklahoma City, Okl., and E. S. Champlin, of Enid, Okl., on the brief), for appellees.

Coleman Hayes, of Oklahoma City, Okl., R. B. F. Hummer and D. E. Hodges, both of Bartlesville, Okl., Edward Howell, of Tulsa, Okl., E. R. McNeill, of Pawnee, Okl., N. E. McNeill, of Tulsa, Okl., J. A. McCollum, of Pawnee, Okl., and Roy C. Lytle, of Oklahoma City, Okl., amici curiae.

Before PHILLIPS and MURRAH, Circuit Judges, and KENNAMER, District Judge.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree adjudging that the State of Oklahoma is the owner of the south half of the Arkansas River bed, in Oklahoma, adjoining four riparian tracts of land, which tracts the United States holds under trust patents for the benefit of certain of its Pawnee and Otoe Indian wards, and that the Champlin Refining Company has a valid and subsisting oil and gas lease upon such south half of the river bed.

The United...

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