Utah Resources International, Inc. v. Utah Board of State Lands

On Rehearing

HENRIOD, Justice:

Appeal from an injunction preventing the Board from granting an “oil shale” lease on land on which plaintiffs had an “oil, gas and hydrocarbon” lease. We said the injunction was proper in this case, reported in 25 Utah 2d 344, 481 P.2d 677, (which we shall call the second Morgan case) hy a split decision, in which one justice concurred in the main opinion, one concurred in the result (the author here) and two dissented. On petition for rehearing a majority of the court saw fit to grant it and to re-examine the case, — which now we do,' — reversing that decision,…