ANSCHUTZ LAND & LIVESTOCK CO. v. UNION PAC. R. CO.

Nos. 84-2195, 84-2198, 84-2199, 84-2227, 84-2228 and 84-2445.

820 F.2d 338 (1987)

ANSCHUTZ LAND AND LIVESTOCK COMPANY, INC., a corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a corporation, et al., Defendants-Appellees. MOENCH INVESTMENT COMPANY, LTD., a Utah limited partnership, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a corporation, et al., Defendants-Appellees. ANTELOPE ISLAND CATTLE COMPANY, INC., a corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNION PACIFIC CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees. ANTELOPE ISLAND CATTLE COMPANY, INC., a corporation, Plaintiff, v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a corporation, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Joseph O. Fawcett & Sons, Inc., a Utah corporation, et al., Plaintiffs in Intervention/Appellants. ANSCHUTZ LAND AND LIVESTOCK COMPANY, INC., a corporation, Plaintiff, v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a Corporation, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Joseph O. Fawcett & Sons, Inc., et al., a Utah corporation, Plaintiffs in Intervention/Appellants. CHAMPLIN PETROLEUM COMPANY, a corporation, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HOWELLS LIVESTOCK, INC., a corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 1, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd Abrams of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City (Robert Martin and Lee Thompson of Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Triplett & Wallace, Wichita, Kan., Edward Clyde and Rodney Snow of Clyde, Pratt, Gibbs & Cahoon, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Leonard A. Spivak, Dean Ringel and John Sander of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City, with him on the briefs), for appellants Anschutz Land and Livestock Co., Inc., Antelope Island Cattle Co., Moench Inv. Co., Ltd., and Howells Livestock, Inc.

Stewart M. Hanson, Jr. of Suitter Axland Armstrong & Hanson, Salt Lake City, Utah (David R. Olsen and Michael W. Homer of Suitter Axland Armstrong & Hanson, and William J. Cayias of Cayias, Livingston & Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah, with him on the briefs), for plaintiffs in intervention/appellants.

Daniel M. Gribbon of Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Leonard J. Lewis and Alan L. Sullivan of Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Russell H. Carpenter, Jr., and Laird Hart of Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., with him on the brief, for defendant-appellee Union Pacific Land Resources Corp. and plaintiff-appellee Champlin Petroleum Co.

Charles T. Krol and Rebecca S. McGee, Amoco Production Co., Denver, Colo., Ewing Werlein, Jr., and Page I. Austin of Vinson & Elkins, Houston, Tex., and Stephen H. Anderson and Kent H. Murdock of Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, Salt Lake City, Utah, on the brief, for defendant-appellee Amoco Production Co.

Before McKAY and TACHA, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, District Judge.


Rehearing Denied in No. 84-2195 July 1, 1987.

McKAY, Circuit Judge.

Four related actions were filed in the United States District Court for the District of Utah to quiet title to the mineral estates of certain lands in Utah and Wyoming.1 When plaintiffs' predecessors-in-interest originally bought the lands from the Union Pacific Railroad (or its predecessor) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth

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