KIRBY ROYALTIES, INC. v. TEXACO INC.

No. 3748.

458 P.2d 101 (1969)

KIRBY ROYALTIES, INC., a Corporation, Appellant (Defendant below), and State of Wyoming, per se, and State of Wyoming, acting by and through the Board of Land Commissioners, Appellant (Intervenor below), v. TEXACO INC., a Corporation, Appellee (Plaintiff below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

August 27, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

K.W. Keldsen, Rawlins, Sterling A. Case, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, for appellant.

Houston G. Williams and Geo. M. Porter of Wehrli & Williams, Casper, for appellee.

Before GRAY, C.J., and McINTYRE and McEWAN, JJ.


Justice McINTYRE delivered the opinion of the court.

Texaco Inc. brought an action to quiet title to the minerals in 80 acres of land in Carbon County, Wyoming. Kirby Royalties, Inc., was named as a defendant. The State of Wyoming, through its Board of Land Commissioners, has intervened. The district court found for Texaco and held it was the owner of the oil, gas and other minerals in the subject lands and entitled to the possession thereof as against Kirby and the...

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