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Show Judge Oilier Orders Re-Argument 0! Oil Case Involving Roosevelt Pool; Case To Be Re-Heard Beginning Oct. 29 According to a report in a recent issue of the Salt Lake Tribune1, the Roosevelt oil pool unit controversy is due for re-argument re-argument in October in the Salt Lake District Court before Judge Willis W. Ritter. Both the defendants and plaintiffs plain-tiffs in the suit were notified recently that the case would be heard at 10 a.m., October 29. There are some 30-odd individual indi-vidual cases involved in the action. ac-tion. Phillips Petroleum Co. seeks to have lands in the Uintah-Duchesne County oil field committed to a unit plan of development. Procedure Provided For The oil firm claims that lease agreements executed with ranchers, and other owning lands within the area, provided for such procedure. The defendants defen-dants say that the unit agreement agree-ment modifies andor nullifies the original lease signed with Phillips and that: (1) the lease is void or (2) in any event does not commit, the landowner to join the unit program. Judge Ritter a few months ago sustained the defendants in their contention and ruled the Phillips' leases void. However, judgment never was formally entered in the case. In the meantime, a conference between attorneys for the defendants de-fendants and the plaintiffs was held in the judges' chambers. A memorandum of the court states that during this conference confer-ence it was "agreed by the parties par-ties (to the suit) that the court should have another hearing on issues on these cases." File Rehearing Motion Attorneys for Phillips will file a motion for rehearing, supported sup-ported by memoradum of authorities au-thorities (legal precedent), not later than Sept. 15. Lawyers for the defendants will file memorandum memo-randum of authorities not later than Oct. 15. The reargument of the case, of course, does not reflect one way or the other any change at this time in the decision informally infor-mally rendered on the matter earlier in the year. |