Lazaro v. State

Plaintiffs, a group of Eastern Oregon ranchers, initiated this action to force the Division of State Lands (DSL) to grant them 20-year grazing leases with automatic 20-year renewal options and to obtain reformation of those leases to insert a missing clause regarding their valuation. The trial court ordered DSL to grant the 20-year leases with the automatic lease renewals, but it declined to reform the leases to add the missing valuation clauses. We reverse the portion of the judgment ordering DSL to grant the longer lease terms and otherwise affirm.

We begin with the parties’ arguments…