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- Title: Bell Petroleum Co. v. Cross v. Cattle Co.
- Author : Colorado Court of Appeals No. 70-419
- Release Date : January 16, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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ENOCH, Judge. This is a quiet title action brought by Bell Petroleum Company (Bell) for adjudication of rights in oil shale deposits underlying
three tracts of land in the Piceance Basin in Rio Blanco County. The ownership of the surface and of other minerals is not
in dispute. Bell and the State of Colorado (State) own the entire mineral estate in equal shares, subject to certain reservations
now owned by appellants. The issue presented is whether the reservations included oil shale. Trial was to the court which
found the reservations ambiguous, and then, after hearing parol evidence, ruled that the reservations did not include any
interest in oil shale. Bell and the State were, accordingly, decreed owners in equal shares of all oil shale underlying the
three tracts.