SOCONY MOBIL OIL COMPANY v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY

No. 9258.

387 F.2d 155 (1967)

SOCONY MOBIL OIL COMPANY, Inc., a New York Corporation, Appellant, v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation (substituted for Wasatch Development Company, a Colorado Corporation), Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

November 29, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Evans, of Haskell, Helmick, Carpenter & Evans, Denver, Colo. (Richard R. Helmick, Denver, Colo., Jack E. Earnest, New York City, and Burns H. Errebo, Denver, Colo., with him on the brief), for appellant.

Fred Winner, of Winner, Berge, Martin & Camfield, Denver, Colo. (William S. Livingston, Denver, Colo., with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before PICKETT, HILL and HICKEY, Circuit Judges.


PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

This appeal challenges the construction of an Option Agreement between General Petroleum Corporation and Wasatch Development Company relating to unpatented oil shale mining claims in western Colorado. Socony Mobil Oil Company, which succeeded to the rights of General, brought suit against Wasatch in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, to enforce its right to purchase the...

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