SIMPSON v. KISTLER INV. CO.

No. 85-129.

713 P.2d 751 (1986)

Ina May SIMPSON and Donal C. Brayton, Executors and Personal Representatives of the Estate of Erle Simpson, Deceased; Donal C. Brayton, a/k/a Donald C. Brayton, and William J. Kirven, Trustees of the Trust created under the Last Will and Testament of Erle Simpson, which has been duly admitted to probate; Erle J. Simpson; Scott Douglas Forbes Simpson: Dan Burnett; John Visconti; Musetta Martin, and Ina May Simpson, Appellants (Defendants), v. KISTLER INVESTMENT COMPANY, and Cornelia F. Vaillancourt, Appellees (Plaintiffs).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

January 22, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce P. Badley and Clay B. Jenkins of Badley & Rasmussen, P.C., Sheridan, for appellants.

Rebecca W. Thomson and Henry A. Burgess of Burgess & Davis, Sheridan, for appellees.

Before THOMAS, C.J., and ROONEY, BROWN, CARDINE and URBIGKIT, JJ.


URBIGKIT, Justice.

This case is an appeal from a declaratory judgment imposing a constructive trust on interests in severed mineral estates derived from a ranching business relationship of ancestors to the present litigants. Two separate ranches were involved.

The trial court's decision in granting the relief requested by imposition of a constructive trust will be affirmed.

The three groups of participants as claimants to the severed mineral interests...

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