Poafpybitty v. Skelly Oil Co.

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• holding that Indian lessors have sufficient property interests to maintain an action seeking damages for the alleged breach of an oil and gas lease
• observing that under the Act “[t]he Secretary is authorized to promulgate regulations controlling the operation and development of the lease and to issue necessary written instructions to the lessee”
• explaining, with regard to 25 U.S.C. § 396 and regulations in force at that time that “the United States has exercised supervisory authority over oil and gas leases in considerable detail.”
• Secretary not lessor in oil and gas leases on Indian land and cannot grant leases on his own authority
• Regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior do not deprive Indians of standing to sue under a lease
• although approval of Secretary is required, “he is not the lessor” of Indian lands

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