Legal Opinion
Thomas v. Union Pacific Railroad Company
District Court, D. Colorado
Decided March 27, 1956No. Civ. 5110PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, District Judge.
The ultimate question presented by the issues drawn between the defendant’s Motion to Dismiss and the Complaint of some score of plaintiffs, concerns the relative rights of the plaintiffs who seek leases for oil and gas under the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, 30 U.S.C.A. § 181 et seq. on the one hand, and the defendant Union Pacific Railroad Company which has reserved all oil, coal and other minerals in land conveyed by the United States of America to’ the defendant or its predecessors in title pursuant to Acts of Congress of July 2, 1864,…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Webster v. FallSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Noble v. Union River Logging RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- United States v. Union Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Platt v. Union Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Burke v. Southern Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Mary Martinez v. Fred A. Seaton, as Secretary of the Interior of the United States, and the Southern Ute TribeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1961
- Hamilton v. Noble Energy, Inc.Colorado Court of Appeals · 2009
- Osborne v. HammitDistrict Court, D. Nevada · 1964
- Sewell Thomas v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1956
- Blackfeet Tribe of Blackfeet Indian Reservation v. Klies Livestock Co.District Court, D. Montana · 1958
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