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IN RE BIG HORN RIVER SYSTEM

Nos. 89-219, 89-220.

803 P.2d 61 (1990)

In re: The GENERAL ADJUDICATION OF ALL RIGHTS TO USE WATER IN the BIG HORN RIVER SYSTEM and All Other Sources, State of Wyoming (Two Cases). Dorothy ALEXANDER and Ronald Alexander; James R. Allen and Mary S. Allen; William J. Barmore; Diamond Z Land and Cattle Co.; Gordon Bradford Eastman and Mary Ann Eastman; James Fike, Sr. and James Fike, Jr.; Francis G. Fox and Loretta B. Fox; Griffin Brothers, Incorporated; Kenneth J. Hansen and Gladys E. Hansen; M.J. Heathman and Leah Heathman; George H. Hunker III and Paula L. Hunker; Johnson Cattle Co., Inc.; Lyle L. Klingaman and Connie Klingaman; Robert L. Mitchell and Jane G. Mitchell; Phyllis Shattuck and Kenneth Moore; David Neary and Carolyn Neary; Nirider Land and Cattle Co.; Larry Paxton; Gordon S. Pennoyer; Bob Peralta; W.L. Presgrove and Minnie Presgrove; Charles Roemer and Carol Roemer; Tim Schell; J. Thomas Scrivener and Mary S. Scrivener; Leland L. Shafer; Ralph A. Urbigkit and Eileen Urbigkit; Donald R. Van Riper; Weber Farms, Inc.; Robert A. Williams; Rudy Zupence and Nancy Zupence, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Shoshone Tribe and Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, et al., Appellees. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Shoshone Tribe and Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

November 30, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sky D. Phifer, Lander, for appellants, Dorothy Alexander, et al.

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., S. Jane Caton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant, State of Wyo.

Richard B. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., and James J. Clear, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. for appellee, U.S.

Susan M. Williams, W. Richard West, Jr., and Jane Marx, Gover, Stetson, Williams & West, P.C., Albuquerque, N.M., for appellee, Shoshone Tribe.

Andrew Baldwin, Ethete, for appellee, Northern Arapaho Tribe.

Before CARDINE, C.J., THOMAS, MACY and GOLDEN, JJ., and BROWN, J., Retired.

THOMAS, Justice.

The resolution of this case demands that the court address two legal problems. The first is whether we can reach the merits of the case since it apparently involves an attempt to appeal from an order that is not final. We resolve that question by treating the attempted appeal as a petition for a writ of certiorari that has been granted for the purpose of accomplishing an appropriate interlocutory review. The second question presents the case on its...

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