Legal Opinion
Skeen v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 30, 1931No. 235PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS, Circuit Judge.
The bill in this suit, dismissed on motion, contains two counts. The first alleges that appellant Skeen, plaintiff below, entered on February 8, 1924 for agricultural purposes and his homestead a described 640 aeres of land in Lea County, New Mexico; that at the time of entry no part of the land had been withdrawn from entry as valuable for coal or gas, or as being on the structure of a producing oil and gas field, but had been classified as stockraising lands; that appellant’s said entry was made under the Act of December 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 862 [43 USCA § 291 et seq.]),…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Mason v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- California v. Southern Pacific Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1895
- United States v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Louisiana v. GarfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Danciger v. CooleySupreme Court of the United States · 1919
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Watt v. Western Nuclear, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1983
- United States v. Union Oil Company of CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1977
- City of Roswell, N.M. v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1935
- Coronado Oil Co. v. GrievesWyoming Supreme Court · 1979
- Ogden River Water Users' Ass'n v. Weber Basin Water ConservancyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1956
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