Hodgson v. Mountain & Gulf Oil Co.

KENNEDY, District Judge.

This case presents a similar situation to that heretofore presented in the case of Hodgson v. Federal Oil & Development Co., 285 Fed. 546, decided by this court in December, 1922.

Here, as there, the plaintiff in equity seeks to impress a trust in the nature of an undivided one-eighth interest in a lease and the benefits accruing therefrom, granted by the Interior Department to the defendant. In that case, as here, it appears upon the face of the pleading that the plaintiff claims to be the owner of a one-eighth interest in the property rights covered by the lease, by…