Valier Co. v. State

THE HONORABLE W. W. LESSLEY,

District Judge sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE BOTTOMLY, disqualified:

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment entered in the district court of Pondera county, declaring and determining certain of the rights, status and other legal relations of the Valier Company, a corporation, plaintiff.

The facts stem from the vicissitudes of the operation of a typical Carey Land Act Project, commonly known as the Valier Project. The facts are many and involved and can be understood only as measured and weighed against the background of their source, the Carey Act, the…