Batzer Oil Co. v. Ohio Oil Co.

KERR, District Judge.

This is a Carey Act case probing the title to the mineral estate in a right of way granted by the State of Wyoming to the Big Horn Basin Colonization Company in 1900. The matter is submitted to the Court on the stipulation of the parties, an agreed statement of facts and the exhibits. Both parties have filed motions for summary judgment.

Pursuant to the Act of Congress of August 18, 1894, the State of Wyoming on May 29, 1900 contracted with the Big Horn Basin Colonization Company, the predecessor to plaintiff’s lessor, for the construction and operation of the Sidon Canal…