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SOUTHWESTERN PETROLEUM CORP. v. UDALL

No. 17545.

325 F.2d 633 (1963)

SOUTHWESTERN PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Stewart L. UDALL, Secretary of the Interior, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided November 14, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph A. Sommer, Santa Fe, N. M., with whom Messrs. Thomas F. McKenna, Santa Fe, N. M., and James T. McNelis, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Hugh Nugent, Attorney, Department of Justice, with whom Asst. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark, Messrs. Roger P. Marquis and Thomas L. McKevitt, Attorneys, Department of Justice, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and WASHINGTON and BASTIAN, Circuit Judges.

BASTIAN, Circuit Judge.

On August 9, 1957, three applicants, Mrs. Helen L. Richardson, Glenn Lovett, and appellant, Southwestern Petroleum Corporation, filed oil and gas lease offers involving public lands within the same New Mexico township. Mrs. Richardson and Lovett filed their offers simultaneously at 10:00 A.M. and Southwestern filed its offer at 1:47 P.M. All three offers ultimately included a 120-acre tract in section 10 and a separate 160-acre tract in section...

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