State ex rel. Rausch v. Amerada Petroleum Corp.

Morris, C.J.,

In this action the relator. challenges the-validity of a lease executed for the State of North-Dakota by the Commissioner of University and School Lands, granting to A. M. Fruh and Thomas W. Leach, as lessee, the right, under certain conditions, to explore, mine, and operate for oil and gas upon certain lands belonging to the state, which lease has been assigned to and is now owned by the Amerada Petroleum Corporation.

The relator, after setting forth the corporate capacity of the Amerada Petroleum Corporation, the establishment of the Board of University and School Lands as an…