Bucknum v. Johnson
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court, Natrona County; Hon. Charles E. Carpenter, Judge. Henry A. Johnson instituted a contest before the state board of school land commissioners, seeking the cancellation of a state lease granted and executed to Clark Beck April 26, 1907, which lease had been assigned by Beck to C. K. Bucknum. From the decision of the board refusing to cancel the lease, the contestant appealed to the District Court.
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ERROR to the District Court, Natrona County; Hon. Charles E. Carpenter, Judge. Henry A. Johnson instituted a contest before the state board of school land commissioners, seeking the cancellation of a state lease granted and executed to Clark Beck April 26, 1907, which lease had been assigned by Beck to C. K. Bucknum. From the decision of the board refusing to cancel the lease, the contestant appealed to the District Court. The trial in the District Court resulted in a judgment for the contestant ordering the cancellation of the lease. The contestee, Bucknum, brought error. The material facts…
1Opinion of the Court
S cotí, Justice.
This case was originally instituted as a contest before the State Board of School Land Commissioners ■ by Johnson, the defendant in error, on June 5, 1907, seeking the cancellation of a lease made and executed by the State to Clark Beck on April 26, 1907, and by him assigned with the approval of the board to the plaintiff in error on June 27, 1907, of the south half of the northwest quarter, the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, the west half of the southeast quarter, the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter, and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter…
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