SKEEN v. LYNCH

No. 235.

48 F.2d 1044 (1931)

SKEEN v. LYNCH et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 30, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom W. Neal, of Lovington, N. M., for appellant.

J. M. Hervey, of Roswell, N. M. (Edward M. Freeman, of New York City, Reid, Hervey, Dow & Hill and Emmett Patton, all of Roswell, N. M., and G. U. McCrary, of Artesia, N. M., on the brief), for appellees.

Before LEWIS and COTTERAL, Circuit Judges, and POLLOCK, District Judge.


LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

The bill in this suit, dismissed on motion, contains two counts. The first alleges that appellant Skeen, plaintiff below, entered on February 8, 1924 for agricultural purposes and his homestead a described 640 acres of land in Lea County, New Mexico; that at the time of entry no part of the land had been withdrawn from entry as valuable for coal or gas, or as being on the structure of a producing oil and gas field, but had been classified as...

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