Superior Oil Co. v. United States

MERRILL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is taken from judgment of the District Court for the District of Arizona, dismissing appellant’s action for want of jurisdiction.

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 acquired by the Society through patent issued by the United States in 1910. The parcel lies within an area of the Hopi Indian Reservation which has been declared the sole and exclusive property of the Hopi Indians, subject to…