Court Opinion

ID: 8144027
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 20:19:31.074197+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:39:33.562021
License: Public Domain

Order Granting Leave to File Petitions in Intervention.

The motions of - the Judsonia Developing Association,, Burk Divide Oil Company No. 2 and others, Burk Divide Oil Company No. 3 and others, and Mellish Consolidated Placer Oil Company, for leave to file petitions in interven*471tion herein, are hereby granted; and similar leave is granted to any and all other parties claiming any title to or interest in the lands in the possession of the Receiver herein by virtue of the orders of April 1, 1920, and June 7, 1920.

Order Setting Cause down for .Hearing upon Certain Questions of Law, Directing the Taking of Testimony and Appointing Commissioner,

On consideration of the motion of the United States and the State of Oklahoma, requesting that this cause be set down for hearing at an early day upon certain questions of law, and of the response of the State of Texas to said motion, this day presented,
It is ordered that this cause be and-it is hereby set down for hearing on the fifteenth day of November, 1920, upon the following questions of law, to wit:
(1) Is the decree of this court in United States y. The State of Texas, 162 U. S. 1, final and conclusive upon the parties to this cause in so far as it declares that the Treaty of 1819 between the United States and Spain fixed the boundary along the south bank of Red River?
(2) If said decree is not conclusive, then did the Treaty of 1819, construed in the light of pertinent public documents and acts, fix the boundary along the mid-channel of. Red River or along the south bank of said river?
It is further ordered that the parties be permitted to take and present testimony in respect of the governmental practice on the part of all governments and States, concerned at the time, bearing upon the construction and effect of said Treaty as to the second question above stated.
The evidence in chief of the United States and the State of Oklahoma shall be taken and closed on or before August 15, 1920; the evidence in chief of the State of Texas *472shall be taken and closed on or before October 1, 1920; and rebuttal testimony on the part of the United States and the State of Oklahoma shall be taken and closed on or before October 15, 1920. The evidence in each case to be taken on seven days’ notice, unless notice is waived.
Ernest Knaebel, Esq., of the District of Columbia, is hereby appointed as Commissioner to take the said evidence and report the same to the court, without findings or conclusions.1

 Mr. Knaebel could not serve and Frederick S. Tyler, Esq., of the District of Columbia, was appointed by order of the Chief Justice, June 30, 1920.