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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF WYOMING

Civ. No. 4304.

195 F.Supp. 692 (1961)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF WYOMING and The Richfield Oil Corporation, a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Wyoming.

June 22, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Raper, Jr., U. S. Atty., Cheyenne, Wyo., and John R. Little, Jr., Attorney-Advisor, Office of Sol., Dept. of Interior, Denver, Colo., for plaintiff.

Frank M. Gallivan, Cheyenne, Wyo., M. F. Schade and William D. Foote, Los Angeles, Cal., Norman B. Gray, Wyoming Atty. Gen., and W. M. Haight, Deputy Atty. Gen., for defendants.

KERR, District Judge.

This controversy arises out of the Act of Admission of the State of Wyoming to the Union on the Granting Act of July 10, 1890, 26 Stat. 222, and the Resurvey Acts of January 10, 1903, 32 Stat. 767, and May 29, 1908, 35 Stat. 465. The United States seeks to quiet title to lands described as Sections 16 and 36 in certain townships which it claims as public domain. The State of Wyoming asserts title to the same lands claiming that the State was...

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