Adams v. Chilcott

Both parties appeal from a declaratory judgment entered in the District Court for Carbon County, the Honorable C. B. Sande pre siding without a jury. Pursuant to Rule 23(h) M.R.App.Civ.P., defendant was stipulated as appellant and plaintiff as respondent.

Lying at the root of this appeal is a 640 acre ranch in Carbon County which was sold by appellant to respondent. The ranch was formerly part of a larger property owned by appellant’s grandfather. In 1937 and again in 1962, the grandfather obtained water purchase contracts and stock subscription agreements which entitled him to buy certain…