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SEATON v. TEXAS COMPANY

Nos. 13636, 13637.

256 F.2d 718 (1958)

Fred A. SEATON, individually and as Secretary of the Interior, Appellant, v. The TEXAS COMPANY, Appellee. John SNYDER, Appellant, v. The TEXAS COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 8, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Roger P. Marquis, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Mr. S. Billingsley Hill, Atty., Dept. of Justice, was on the brief, for appellant in No. 13636.

Mr. James R. Browning, Washington, D. C., for appellant in No. 13637.

Mr. John J. Wilson, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Roger J. Whiteford and Philip S. Peyser, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Messrs. Samuel Nakasian, Washington, D. C., and Robert H. Rines, Boston, Mass., filed a brief on behalf of Patrick A. McKenna, as amicus curiae.

Before BAZELON, FAHY and BURGER, Circuit Judges.

FAHY, Circuit Judge.

The Secretary of the Interior and John Snyder separately appeal from a judgment of the District Court that appellee The Texas Company, assignee of Thomas G. Dorough, is the holder of a valid oil and gas lease on forty acres of land in North Dakota and that Snyder should surrender for cancellation a lease to him of the same acreage.1 The Secretary had cancelled the Dorough...

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