ASHLEY v. ANDRUS

No. 80-1753.

655 F.2d 105 (1981)

Eleanor P. ASHLEY, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles D. Ashley, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Schaefer, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellant.

Scott W. Hansen, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PELL, Circuit Judge, MARKEY, Chief Judge, and WOOD, Circuit Judge.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior appeals the district court's reversal of the Secretary's retroactive disqualification of an oil and gas lease secured in the Interior's lottery by Eleanor Ashley, as personal representative of the Estate of Charles D. Ashley. Mr. Ashley died February 8, 1978. Mrs. Ashley, acting as the personal representative of the estate, subsequently signed a modification to a service...

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