MATTER OF MONTANA PAC. OIL & GAS CO.

No. 79-105.

614 P.2d 1045 (1980)

In the Matter of MONTANA PACIFIC OIL AND GAS CO. and Various Record Owners of Oil and Gas Interests for which Montana Pacific Oil and Gas Co. is holding funds. Appeal of MONTANA PACIFIC OIL AND GAS CO.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided July 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aronow, Anderson, Beatty & Lee, Shelby, Richard Munson, argued, Shelby, for appellant.

Mike Greely, Atty. Gen., Helena, Dennis Dunphy, argued, Asst. Atty. Gen., Helena, Rae V. Kalbfleisch, argued, County Atty., Shelby, for amicus curiae.


SHEEHY, Justice.

On December 18, 1979, the Montana Pacific Oil and Gas Co. (MOPOG) petitioned the District Court, Toole County, Ninth District, to obtain orders requiring the clerk of the court, Vivian S. Hall, to receive funds tendered by the petitioner and to establish a trust in the name of the petitioners; to receive future funds; and further that the court decree the petitioner had no duty to search for owners of interest hereafter described, and to require the...

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