Kerrigan v. Miller, Gov.

Blume, Chief Justice.

The State issued a lease to Harold E. Kerrigan, the respondent herein, for Section 36, Tp. 32, Range 61, Niobrara County, Wyoming, to run from January 1st, 1932, to January 1st, 1937. On November 16, 1936, he applied for a renewal of the lease. On December 31, 1936, H. E. Zerbe, the appellant herein, applied for a lease on the same land. On February 13, 1937, the commissioner of public lands decided to divide the land between the two applicants, giving to Kerrigan a lease for the west half of the section and to Zerbe a lease for the east half thereof. He found that…