STATE v. BHP PETROLEUM CO., INC.

No. 90-40.

804 P.2d 671 (1991)

STATE of Wyoming and Howard M. Schrinar, State Commissioner of Public Lands, Appellants (Defendants), v. BHP PETROLEUM COMPANY, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Appellee (Plaintiff).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

January 14, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., and Vicci M. Colgan, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellants.

Harold E. Meier of Lonabaugh & Riggs, Sheridan, and Paul F. Hultin, Janet F. Kabili, and David A. Bailey, Denver, Colo., for appellee.

Before URBIGKIT, C.J., and THOMAS, CARDINE, MACY and GOLDEN, JJ.


OPINION

MACY, Justice.

Appellants State of Wyoming and Howard M. Schrinar, State Commissioner of Public Lands, (the State, collectively) appeal from a summary judgment in favor of Appellee BHP Petroleum Company, Inc., declaring that BHP did not owe interest to the State on underpaid gas royalties which were due to the State.

We affirm.

The State raises the following issue:

[Is the State] entitled, as a matter of law, to interest...

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