State of Wyoming, Oscar E. Swan, Commissioner of Public Lands v. Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary, United States Department of Interior, Defendant

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.

INTRODUCTION — EXPLANATION OF ISSUES

The ultimate question which is presented in this case is whether Wyoming is entitled to so-called lieu lands for acres included within rights-of-way previously granted to the Union Pacific Railroad. Wyoming is entitled to compensatory grants if it is de termined that the conveyances of railroad rights-of-way to the Union Pacific constituted prior dispositions of the areas included within those conveyances to the railroad as the term “prior disposition” is used in the Wyoming Enabling Act. Wyoming maintains that these…