Legal Opinion
Neely v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided January 18, 1961No. 374-56PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhitaker, Judge
Plaintiff sues for breach of its contract of lease to mine coal on some 2,000 acres of coal-bearing lands in eastern Oklahoma.
In the latter part of 1848, or the early part of 1949, the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations transferred the lands to the United States. Following the transfer, the Lone Star Steel Company made application for a mining lease on the lands, in a letter to J. D. Turner, the district mining supervisor of the Geological Survey, at McAlester, Oklahoma. Mr. Turner recommended to his superiors in Washington that the land be offered for lease. In April and May, 1950, the land was…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Chain Belt Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1953
- Cuiffo v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1955
3Cited by63 opinions
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