State Ex Rel. Dickgraber v. Sheridan

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

In the calendar year 1952 the state board of land commissioners acting pursuant to the laws of the state of Montana, R. C. M. 1947, secs. 81-103 and 81-1701 et seq., and the regulations, customs and practices of the board, from time to time, advertised *449various separate tracts of particularly described public school lands as being open for oil and gas leasing through oral competitive bidding at public auction. These lands had been donated and granted to the state by the federal government for the support of the common schools pursuant to the provisions of the Enabling…