Hodgson v. Federal Oil & Development Co.

KENNEDY, District Judge.

The above-entitled cause is a suit in equity to impress a trust in the nature of an undivided one-eighth interest upon a certain lease or the benefits accruing therefrom granted by the United States Department of the Interior to the defendant Federal Oil & Development Company.

The bill is attacked by a motion to dismiss, alleging facts insufficient to constitute a cause of action, laches and a bar by the statute of limitations, a final determination of the matters involved by the Department of the Interior, and the failure to join the United States as an indispensable…