PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORP. v. SHELL OIL CO.

No. 918.

455 P.2d 12 (1969)

PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION; Phillips Petroleum Company; Sinclair Oil & Gas Company; and Skelly Oil Company, Appellants, and Edgar Paul Boyko, Attorney General for the State of Alaska, Appellant-Intervenor, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY; Standard Oil Company of California; Western Operations, Inc.; and Atlantic-Richfield Company, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Erwin and Richard O. Gantz, Anchorage, John W. Howard, Tulsa, Okl., Paul F. Robison, Anchorage, for appellants.

G. Kent Edwards, Atty. Gen., Juneau, Edgar Paul Boyko, Former Atty. Gen., Robert L. Hartig, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, for appellant-intervenor.

Joseph Rudd, Eugene F. Wiles, Anchorage, Leslie E. Kell, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellees.

Before NESBETT, C.J., and DIMOND and RABINOWITZ, JJ.


RABINOWITZ, Justice.

In this appeal appellants and appellant-intervenor State of Alaska appeal from the superior court's judgment of September 19, 1967. This judgment reversed the determination of the Director of the Division of Lands, dated June 10, 1965, which decision had certified that Pan American Petroleum Corporation was entitled to pay a reduced royalty rate of 5 per cent, instead of the usual 12 1/2 per cent, on all...

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