SUMMIT RANGE & LIVESTOCK CO. v. REES

No. 8063.

1 Utah 2d 195 (1953)

265 P.2d 381

SUMMIT RANGE & LIVESTOCK CO. v. REES.

Supreme Court of Utah.

December 22, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gustin, Richards & Mattsson, James W. Beless, Jr., Salt Lake City, for appellant.

John S. Boyden, Bryant H. Croft, Salt Lake City, for respondent.


CROCKETT, Justice.

Range war in the time honored tradition of the West, arising out of rivalry between cattle and sheep men, forms the basis of this suit. Fortunately, badmen, shooting irons and combat have been supplanted by a corporate charter, by-laws, directors' meetings and resort to the orderly processes of law.

The historical background initiates with the organization of the plaintiff corporation in 1900. Its articles provided:

"The object...

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