BACA LAND & CATTLE COMPANY v. SAVAGE

Nos. 16-70, 17-70, and 18-70.

440 F.2d 867 (1971)

BACA LAND & CATTLE COMPANY and Dunigan Tool & Supply Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. George W. SAVAGE, Trustee under Liquidating Trust Agreement, Intervenor-Appellee, v. NEW MEXICO TIMBER, INC., and T. P. Gallagher & Co., Inc., Defendants-Appellees. BACA LAND & CATTLE COMPANY and Dunigan Tool & Supply Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. George W. SAVAGE, Trustee under Liquidating Trust Agreement, Intervenor-Appellant, v. NEW MEXICO TIMBER, INC., and T. P. Gallagher & Co., Inc., Defendants-Appellees. BACA LAND & CATTLE COMPANY and Dunigan Tool & Supply Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. George W. SAVAGE, Trustee under Liquidating Trust Agreement, Intervenor-Appellee, v. NEW MEXICO TIMBER, INC., and T. P. Gallagher & Co., Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 1, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irwin S. Moise, Lewis R. Sutin, Albuquerque, N. M. (Norman S. Thayer and Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Albuquerque, N. M., on the brief), for New Mexico Timber, Inc., and T. P. Gallagher and Co., Inc.

Harry L. Bigbee, Santa Fe, N. M. (G. Stanley Crout of Bigbee & Byrd, Santa Fe, N. M., and Bryan G. Johnson and J. J. Monroe of Iden & Johnson, Albuquerque, N. M., on the brief), for Baca Land & Cattle Company and Dunigan Tool & Supply Company, and George W. Savage, Trustee under Liquidating Trust Agreement.

Before LEWIS, Chief Judge, and JOHNSEN and HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judges.


LEWIS, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from a declaratory judgment entered by the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico and involves the construction of a purchase contract and deed granting to the plaintiffs' predecessors in interest a tract of approximately 100,000 acres of land in New Mexico known as the Baca Location and reserving to the defendants' predecessors certain timber rights on such tract for a period of 99 years.

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