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BELL PETROLEUM COMPANY v. CROSS V. CATTLE COMPANY

No. 70-419.

492 P.2d 80 (1971)

BELL PETROLEUM COMPANY, a California Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The CROSS V. CATTLE COMPANY, a Colorado Corporation, Defendant-Appellant; Sinclair Oil and Gas Company, a Maine Corporation (and its successor in interest Sinclair Oil Corporation, a New York Corporation), Defendant-Appellee; Humble Oil and Refining Company, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-Appellant; State of Colorado, for the Use and Benefit of the Colorado Game, Fish and Parks Commission, Defendant-Appellee; Glennie Loeb et al., Defendants-Appellants; All Unknown Persons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action, Defendants-Appellees.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

Rehearing Denied December 7, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Delaney & Balcomb, Edward Mulhall, Jr., Glenwood Springs, Quiat & Quiat, James C. Bull, Denver, for defendants-appellants, The Cross V. Cattle Co., Humble Oil and Refining Co., Glennie Loeb and Herman Horwich, Jack C. Burkhardt, Jacob Burkhardt, Edward Burkhardt, Galen J. Burkhardt, and Glennie Loeb, Individually.

Holland & Hart, Donald O. Kinonen, Robert P. Davison, Denver, for plaintiff-appellee, Bell Petroleum Co.

Akolt, Shepherd, Dick & Rovira, Wallis L. Campbell, Denver, for defendant-appellee, Sinclair Oil and Gas Co.

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Gerald W. Wischmeyer, Asst. Atty. Gen., James H. Mosely, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for defendant-appellee, State of Colorado.

Not Selected for Official Publication.

ENOCH, Judge.

This is a quiet title action brought by Bell Petroleum Company (Bell) for adjudication of rights in oil shale deposits underlying three tracts of land in the Piceance Basin in Rio Blanco County. The ownership of the surface and of other minerals is not in dispute. Bell and the State of Colorado (State) own the entire mineral estate in equal shares, subject to certain...

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