PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY v. PETERSON

Nos. 4876, 4878.

218 F.2d 926 (1954)

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, Appellant, v. Heber A. PETERSON and Astrid N. D. Peterson, Appellees. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, Appellant, v. John H. HASLEM and Rebecca H. Haslem, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 21, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Sneed, Bartlesville, Okl. (R. L. Foster, H. D. Turner, James G. Williams, Jr., Bartlesville, Okl., Clair M. Senior and Hugh C. Garver, Salt Lake City, Utah, on the brief), for appellant.

Frank C. Hubbard, Los Angeles, Cal. (Olin Wellborn III, Los Angeles, Cal., Ray Dillman, R. Earl Dillman, Roosevelt, Utah, and Hugh W. Colton, Vernal, Utah, on the brief), for appellees.

H. M. Gullickson, Billings, Mont., A. T. Smith, Denver, Colo., Macdonald & Halsted and Alexander Macdonald, Los Angeles, Cal., Harry D. Page, Hawley C. Kerr, Tulsa, Okl., Frank F. Jestrab, Bjella & Jestrab, Williston, N. D., Jack M. Campbell, Roswell, N. M., and Oliver Seth, Santa Fe, N. M., amici curiæ.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and HUXMAN and MURRAH, Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

This appeal involves the validity of a unitization provision in certain oil and gas leases. It reads as follows:

"12. Lessee shall have the right to unitize, pool, or combine all or any part of the above described lands with other lands in the same general area by entering into a cooperative or unit plan of development or operation approved by any governmental authority and, from time to time, with like approval, to modify, change or...

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