United States v. Ohio Oil Co.

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

Acting under asserted authority of an administrative regulation, as embodied in departmental oil and gas leases, the Secretary of the Interior determined the minimum value for which he would accept payment for royalty oil produced from such leases in the Lance Creek Oil Field in Wyoming, and threatened to institute appropriate proceedings to cancel the leases unless the lessees paid the minimum price fixed and determined by him. The Ohio Oil Company, as one of the lessees, finally paid the difference between 770 per barrel, the price for which it sold the royalty oil to…