The Superior Oil Company v. United States

353 F.2d 34 The SUPERIOR OIL COMPANY, a Nevada corporation, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, H. E. O'Harra, Ralph M. Tipling, Abbot Sekaquaptewa, Mathew Silas, Hanson Tootsie and Ira Tewa, Appellees. No. 19640. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. October 28, 1965. Philip J. Shea, Fennemore, Craig, Allen & McClennen, Phoenix, Ariz., Rawlings, Wallace, Roberts & Black, Salt Lake City, Utah, for appellant. J. Edwards Williams, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Roger P. Marquis, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Jo Ann D. Diamos, U. S. Atty., Phoenix, Ariz., for appellees United States and O'Harra, Tipling, Silas, Tootsie and Tewa. John S. Boyden, Bryant H. Croft, Allen H. Tibbals, Salt Lake City, Utah, for appellee Abbot Sekaquaptewa. Before CHAMBERS, MERRILL and BROWNING, Circuit Judges. MERRILL, Circuit Judge: 1 This appeal is taken from judgment of the District Court for the District of Arizona, dismissing appellant's action for want of jurisdiction. 2 Appellant holds an oil and gas lease upon a five-acre parcel of land in the State of Arizona. The land was owned and was leased to appellant by the Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society, having been…