NEUGENT v. UNITED STATES DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. 79-2363.

640 F.2d 386 (1981)

Mary L. NEUGENT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF the INTERIOR et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 8, 1981.

As Amended April 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Malcolm W. Houston, Kensington, Md., for appellant.

Leonard Birdsong, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Michael W. Farrell, Royce C. Lamberth and Walter J. Postula, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellees.

Before MacKINNON and WALD, Circuit Judges, and JUNE L. GREEN, United States District Judge for the District of Columbia.


Opinion PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

The Republic of Mexico in 1843 issued a land grant in what is now the State of Colorado to two colonizers, Ceran St. Vrain and Cornelio Vigil. This became known as the Las Animas Grant and the St. Vrain-Vigil Grant. It included land along the Arkansas River near the present town of Hasty, Colorado.1 St. Vrain and Vigil2 in turn made sub-grants to induce settlers onto...

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