Thompson v. Conwell

This case involves conflicting applications for a grazing lease on state school lands consisting of Section 16, Township 34 North, Range 113 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, in Sublette County. A prior lease held by Margaret E. Conwell, ap-pellee, expired and she applied for a new lease at the old rental of five cents per acre. Appellants, Robert V. Thompson and James A. Greenwood, Jr., also applied for a lease on the same section, offering ten cents per acre. The Commissioner of Public Lands, Ben D. Cossman, made a decision recommending to the Board of Land Commissioners that a lease be…