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McCORMICK v. UNION PACIFIC RESOURCES CO.

No. 99SC243.

14 P.3d 346 (2000)

G. Todd McCORMICK, Maura C. McCormick, Paul Hoshiko, Jean Hoshiko, Sylva Kunzman, Glen P. Rouse, Peg M. Wykes and Ritchey Land & Cattle Co., Inc., a Colorado corporation, Petitioners, v. UNION PACIFIC RESOURCES COMPANY, a Delaware corporation; Snyder Oil Corporation, a Delaware corporation; Amoco Production Company, a Delaware corporation; Elk Exploration, Inc., a California corporation; L. Alice Collister; Damson Investment Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Farmers Independent Ditch Company, a Colorado not-for-profit corporation; Betty Wise Guida; HS Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation; B. Brian Neary; Soco Wattenberg Corporation, a Delaware corporation; Union Pacific Land Resources Company, a Nebraska corporation; Michael Youel, and all unknown persons who claim an interest in the subject matter of this action, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

As Modified December 14, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carpenter & Klatskin, PC, Willis V. Carpenter, Max Minnig, Jr. & Associates, LLC, Max A. Minnig, Jr., Denver, for Petitioners.

Covington & Burling, Russell H. Carpenter, Jr., J. Michael Hemmer, David M. Grable, Washington, D.C., Welborn, Sullivan, Meck & Tooley, P.C., John F. Welborn, Keith D. Tooley, Denver, for Respondent Union Pacific Resources Company.

Clanahan, Tanner, Downing and Knowlton, P.C., Michael J. Wozniak, Denver, for Respondents Snyder Oil Corporation, Damson Investment Group, Inc. and Soco Wattenberg Corporation.

Deisch and Marion, P.C., Timothy F. Marion, Michael R. Smith, Denver, for Respondent Amoco Production Company.

Welborn, Sullivan, Meck & Tooley, P.C., Keith D. Tooley, Denver, for Respondents Elk Exploration, Inc. and HS Resources, Inc.

Justice HOBBS delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The question we answer in this case is whether Colorado follows the majority rule that a deed reservation for "other minerals" reserves oil and gas. We conclude that it does. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals. See McCormick v. Union Pac. R.R. Co., 983 P.2d 84 (Colo.App. 1999).

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In this quiet title action filed in 1994, Plaintiffs...

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