Order Cancelling Elks' Hills Cit Leases Sustained on Appeal San Francisco, Jan. 5.
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals to-day upheld the decision of a lower court ordering cancella: tion of the Elks Hills naval reserve cil leases but reversed the lower court's award of $11,781,000 to the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Comany, one of B. Doheny's corporations, as reimbursement for their expenditure on Pearl Harbour.
The decision is an important vie-tory for the Federal Government as it upholds their contention that the! lower court was not authorized to order the reimbursement.
It is expected that Mr. Doheny will appeal to the Supreme Court.—Reuter's American Service,
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