Bull Creek Oil & Gas Development v. Bethel

MR. JUSTICE ANGSTMAN:

This action was brought to compel the specific performance of a contract of assignment of a federal oil and gas lease. Trial was to the court without a jury, resulting in judgment for plaintiff.

Defendant has appealed from the judgment. The complaint alleges in substance that E. V. Bethel in 1944 had, or claimed to have, certain oil and gas leases upon lands owned by the United States and applications for oil and gas leases on other federal lands in Blaine and Phillips Counties, Montana; that to obtain necessary funds to develop the property he requested a number of…