Matter of Montana Pac. Oil & Gas Co.

On December 18, 1979, the Montana Pacific Oil and Gas Co. (MOPOG) petitioned the District Court, Toole, County, Ninth District, to obtain orders requiring the clerk of the court, Vivian S. Hall, to receive funds tendered by the petitioner and to establish a trust in the name of the petitioners; to receive future funds; and further that the court decree the petitioner had no duty to search for owners of interest hereafter described, and to require the clerk of the court to hold MOPOG harmless for any future claims of the owners of those property interests.

The District Court, on December 18,…