Your mission: go from blue squares to blue squares
without touching any of the red squares

Check out this Order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming in a case that presents a very interesting — some might say metaphysical — property issue; an issue we were not really aware of until one of our law students brought it up a few months ago.

The diagram above is from the court’s Order, and depicts the “checkerboard” land ownership patterns in the relevant area of Wyoming. Hunters, who wanted to hunt on public BLM-managed land (blue) adjacent to Iron Bar’s private property (red) needed a way to get to the public hunting grounds without trespassing on Iron Bar’s private property. That meant no touching of the red squares.

The hunters’ journey is called “corner crossings” because, well, they are crossing the land at the corners of the boundaries.

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