Legal Opinion
Colman v. Utah State Land Board
Utah Supreme Court
Decided June 30, 1965No. 10132PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CROCKETT, Justice:
Plaintiff seeks review of a decision of the Utah Land Board which rejected his ap*16plication for an oil and gas lease on a 320-acre tract of state-owned land in Uintah County.1
The position of the plaintiff is that because he filed the first application for an oil and gas lease on the land in question, in which he offered $1 per acre, the Land Board was compelled to approve it solely because of his priority in filing. The Board rejected his contention and ruled that the leasing on the land was subject to competitive bidding and so proceeded.
Title to the land in question was…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Moog Industries, Inc. v. Federal Trade CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Utah Hotel Co. v. Industrial CommissionUtah Supreme Court · 1944
- McKnight v. State Land BoardUtah Supreme Court · 1963
- Olson Construction Company v. State Tax CommissionUtah Supreme Court · 1961
- Max Barash v. Fred A. Seaton, Secretary of the InteriorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Williams v. Public Service Com'n of UtahUtah Supreme Court · 1988
- Consolidation Coal Co. v. Utah Division of State Lands & ForestryUtah Supreme Court · 1994
- Kennecott Copper Corporation v. AndersonUtah Supreme Court · 1973
- Archer v. Board of State Lands & ForestryUtah Supreme Court · 1995
- Wells Fargo Armored Service Corp. v. Public Service CommissionUtah Supreme Court · 1981
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