Albert M. Lipscomb v. United States of America, Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the Interior, Amoco Production Company

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Albert M. Lipscomb appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the federal defendants in his suit under the Color-of-Title Act, 43 U.S. C.A. § 1068 et seq.

I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Appellant Lipscomb’s family has farmed a parcel of approximately 41 acres of real property in Baldwin County, Alabama since 1936. On June 16, 1980 Lipscomb acquired title by warranty deed to the land from his mother. He subsequently discovered that the United States actually owned the land, and that the government never had issued a patent to his family. The land…