BURNET v. CORONADO OIL & GAS CO.

No. 341.

285 U.S. 393 (1932)

BURNET, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, v. CORONADO OIL & GAS CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Reargued March 16, 1932.

Decided April 11, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Thacher, with whom Assistant Attorney General Youngquist and Messrs. Sewall Key, Hayner N. Larson, and Francis H. Horan were on the brief, for petitioner.

Messrs. David A. Richardson and Thos. P. Gore, with whom Messrs. Samuel W. Hayes and Eugene Jordan were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

By the Enabling Act Congress required as a condition precedent to the admission of Oklahoma into the Union that her constitution should make provision for common schools; and for their benefit it granted certain lands to the State with the proviso that those valuable for minerals, gas and oil should not be sold prior to January...

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