GUILD TRUST v. UNION PACIFIC LAND RESOURCES CORP.

No. 79-1568.

682 F.2d 208 (1982)

GUILD TRUST, Melba L. Guild, Delmar D. Dean and Mary Melba Guild Dean, husband and wife, Earl Guild and Barbara Jo Guild, husband and wife, Ferd Christiansen and Eva Lois Christiansen, husband and wife, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNION PACIFIC LAND RESOURCES CORPORATION, a corporation, Champlin Petroleum Company, a corporation, and Amoco Production Company, a corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. Phillips, Evanston, Wyo., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Daniel M. Gribbon of Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C. (Russell H. Carpenter, Jr. of Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., Houston G. Williams of Williams, Porter, Day & Neville, P. C., Casper, Wyo., Harry O. Hickman and Frank H. Houck, Denver, Colo., Ewing Werlein, Jr. and Ben H. Rice, III of Vinson & Elkins, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for Amoco Production Co., D. Thomas Kidd, Casper, Wyo., and Gorsuch, Kirgis, Campbell, Walker & Grover, Denver, Colo., of counsel, with him on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before SETH, Chief Judge, and DOYLE and McKAY, Circuit Judges.


SETH, Chief Judge.

The Guild Trust brought this action against the Union Pacific Land Resources Corporation and others seeking to quiet title to minerals in the subject lands. The trial court, 475 F.Supp. 726, however, by summary judgment quieted title in the minerals including oil and gas in the defendants. The trial court held that the six deeds here concerned reserved title to all the minerals in the grantor. The plaintiffs...

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