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IN RE TRIGG

No. 79-1862.

630 F.2d 1370 (1980)

In re John Harry TRIGG and Pauline Van Hook Trigg, Debtors, John Harry TRIGG and Pauline Van Hook Trigg, Debtors in Possession, Sidney C. Skaar and Don C. Bell, II, Co-Trustees, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES of America, DEPARTMENT OF the INTERIOR, BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT by and Through Cecil D. ANDRUS, its Secretary of the Interior, State of Wyoming, by and through Albert E. King, its Commissioner of Public Lands, and State of New Mexico, by and through Phil R. Lucero, its Commissioner of Public Lands, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided September 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart D. Shanor, Roswell, N. M. (K. Douglas Perrin, Roswell, N. M., with him on brief) of Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley, Roswell, N. M., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Mary B. Guthrie, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, Wyo. and Thomas H. Pacheco, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., R. E. Thompson, U. S. Atty., James B. Grant, Asst. U. S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M., Dirk D. Snel, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., John D. Throughton, Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, Wyo., with them on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before SETH, Chief Judge, and BREITENSTEIN and SEYMOUR, Circuit Judges.

SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.

John Harry Trigg and Pauline Van Hook Trigg are debtors-in-possession in a Chapter XI proceeding under the Bankruptcy Act of 1898, formerly codified at 11 U.S.C. §§ 701 et seq.1 At issue on appeal are their rights to certain oil and gas leases issued to them by the United States Bureau of Land Management and the state of Wyoming. The district court, affirming the bankruptcy judge's decision, held...

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