ASHLAND OIL, INC. v. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY

Nos. 73-1797, 73-1798 and 73-1799.

554 F.2d 381 (1975)

ASHLAND OIL, INC., Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

On Rehearing May 10, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. McDermott, Tulsa, Okl. (Lloyd G. Minter and Don L. Jemison, Bartlesville, Okl., with him on the brief), for appellant.

Gerald Sawatzky, Wichita, Kansas (Jay W. Elston, Houston, Texas, John M. Imel, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Arloe W. Mayne, Ashland, Kentucky, W. O. Strong III, Houston, Texas, and Foulston, Siefkin, Powers & Eberhardt, Wichita, Kansas, Fulbright, & Jaworski, Houston, Texas, and Martin, Logan, Moyers, Martin & Conway, Tulsa, Oklahoma, of Counsel, with him on the Brief), for Appellee, Ashland Oil, Inc.

Floyd L. France, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Peter R. Taft, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Nathan G. Graham, U.S. Atty., Hubert A. Marlow, Asst. U.S. Atty., Tulsa, Okl., E. Edward Johnson, U.S. Atty., Topeka, Kan., Jon K. Sargent, Asst. U.S. Atty., Edmund B. Clark, Dennis A. Dutterer, George R. Hyde, and Jacques B. Gelin, Attys., Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., with him on the Brief), for Intervenor-Appellant, United States of America.

Before LEWIS, Chief Judge, BREITENSTEIN, SETH, McWILLIAMS, BARRETT and DOYLE, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.


On Rehearing En Banc May 10, 1977.

SETH, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought to recover the reasonable value of helium intermixed with natural gas, extracted therefrom, and sold by the defendant Phillips to the United States. The plaintiff prevailed against the defendant and the Government as intervenor in the lower court, and they both appeal. Plaintiff also appeals, but only as to the ultimate division of the proceeds derived from the helium as ordered...

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