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STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA v. MORTON

No. 26939.

450 F.2d 493 (1971)

STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, Appellee, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON, the Secretary of the Interior of the United States, et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

November 3, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dirk D. Snel (argued), George R. Hyde, Dept. of Justice, Shiro Kashiwa, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., G. Kent Edwards, U. S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, for appellants.

Robert W. Vater (argued), Eugene F. Wiles, of Delaney, Wiles, Moore, Hayes & Reitman, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellee.

Before WRIGHT and CHOY, Circuit Judges, and LINDBERG, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Standard Oil of California is the owner of an undivided half interest in five federal oil and gas leases issued by the Bureau of Land Management of the United States Department of the Interior in 1958. The issue in controversy in the present action is the interpretation to be accorded the rental provisions of these leases. The rental rate provisions in dispute are identical in each lease:

"(b) If the lands are wholly or partly within the known...

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