ESSLEY v. MERSHON

No. 35534.

262 P.2d 417 (1953)

ESSLEY et al. v. MERSHON.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied October 13, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Villard Martin, Garrett Logan, F.A. Bodovitz, Tulsa, for plaintiffs in error, J.L. Essley and Thomas E. Berry.

Nathan Scarritt, E.S. Champlin, D.J. Owen, Jr., Enid, for plaintiff in error, Champlin Refining Co.

Wayne W. Bayless, Oklahoma City, I.D. Moseley, Robert W. Raynolds, John M. Wheeler, John M. Wheeler, Jr., Tulsa, for defendant in error, Milton M. Mershon.


DAVISON, Justice.

This is an action between cotenants under an oil and gas lease covering some one-hundred sixty acres of land in Noble County, Oklahoma. It was brought by Milton M. Mershon, as plaintiff, against J.L. Essley, his cotenant and the Champlin Refining Company, the purchaser of the oil, as defendants, to establish and quiet his title to an undivided one-sixth interest in the leasehold estate and for an accounting by Essley of the income derived from the...

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