Show i IMPORTANT RULING I I Evanston Wyoming April 4 Judge Judge knight Inight today rendered a very important decision relating to lo range rights in this county between sheep anc and cattle men the latter having leased a large area of oi land and from the Pacific The Union Pacific Land nd and Water company plaintiff vs William WilliamS S. S Rigby defendant Ruling on to 10 defendants defendant's answer The questions presented by this demurrer demurrer de de- are the same as is were d decided by jy this court in Carbon county in the case ol of the Swan Sara Laud and Live Stuck company In that case the court Held field through the trial Hial that patties parties in possession of railway lands land by reason of U f purchase were entitled to the grass or other crops growing thereon That in order to protect such right rig it was not necessary sarv sary to fence such land nor place posts at al the corners or in in anywise establish the boundaries s thereof any lurther further than ha has lias been done dune by the government the only requirement bein being that notice nOlice shall be given n to the parties complained Of oj not to depasture the same It was held that this protection could not be afforded as' as against range stock but that as soon as ac stock were gathered and driven and aud handled the they lost their identity as range stock stuck and parties g or driving them theta were responsible responsible sible for far damage upon lands such as these if such stock stuck was allowed all to 10 even stray upon such land It was held that as the plaintiff plaintiffs were entitled to the possession o of the alternate sections only being the odd sections and as it was proven that the even sections sections sec sec- lions intermingled with such odd sections were government unoccupied public lands the grass or growing crops on such government unoccupied pu public lic lands 1 was common to which all III residents o of the state had an equal right and that that the owners o of the alternate alter nate hate sections had no grea greater light tight over such government land than the general public and for that reason the general public had a right to go from one o ol oj f these government sections to another and to depa tUle the same but that that right to pass over the odd sections was wa t to a way in which it could b be bedone bedone done with the least damage and where there was teas no nu toad lOad or public highway the public in ii seeking to cross such land lands S must do t the e least possible damage in s so doing doing- And the court further held that it vv was not the duty nor were the owners o of f such od odd 1 sections obliged to point ou out their respective claims but that a general notice by section numbers g gi giving ing township and range was sufficient notice to protect such lands By y reason of such rulings heretofore made by this court and the answer of p defendant or that portion to lO which t th the demurrer is interposed being in lin line with the decision as already set fortl forth such demurrer is overruled He Herald ald f |