JAMES v. UNKNOWN TRUSTEES

No. 35335.

208 Okla. 502 (1953)

257 P.2d 520

JAMES v. UNKNOWN TRUSTEES, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS OF THREE-IN-ONE OIL & GAS. CO. et al.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied May 26, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Owen F. Renegar, Oklahoma City, for plaintiff in error.

Hill & Godfrey, Oklahoma City, for defendant in error George Woodward, Jr.

Keaton, Wells, Johnston & Lytle, Oklahoma City, for defendants in error C.E. McCaughey, and Helen McCaughey, R.D. Jones and Kathleen Jones, Walter K. Jones and Erlo O. Jones, John E. Laughlin and Beradine C. Laughlin.

Bulla & Bynum, Oklahoma City, for defendants in error Dickson Oil Company, Willard L. Miller, S.L. Routledge and Helen Routledge, Harold D. Herndon and Saltmount Oil Company.

Bohanon & Adams, Oklahoma City, for defendants in error L.S. Youngblood, J. Lee Youngblood, Kenneth Ellison, Bessie M. Ellison, A.L. Lawson and First National Bank & Trust Company.

Forrest M. Darrough, Walter Davison, and Richard P. Ryan, Tulsa, and Curtis & Blanton, Pauls Valley, for defendant in error Carter Oil Company.

Hall & Cotton, Oklahoma City, for defendants in error Romeo L. Perrault, Miss Solange Beauchim, Garfield S. Birnie and Frederick B. Locker, Inc.

Brown, Cund & Brown, Duncan, for defendants in error J.S. McCasland and T.H. McCasland, sole and surviving trustees of Three-In-One Oil & Gas Company.

George & George, Ardmore, for defendants in error Ward S. Merrick and Jinks Ikard Merrick.

C.H. Bowie, Pauls Valley, for defendants in error L.R. Bradshaw, Helen E. Bradshaw, W.C. Bonney and Wilma G. Bonney.

Garvin & Shumate, Pauls Valley, for defendants in error Treasury Island Royalties and Glenn O. Young.


JOHNSON, V.C.J.

This is an appeal from a judgment on the pleadings in favor of the defendants establishing their rights to certain mineral interest claimed by plaintiff in an action brought by him in 1949. The trial court sustained a demurrer to the petition. On appeal to this court the order of the trial court was reversed and a new trial was directed. James V. Unknown Trustees, etc., of Three in One Oil & Gas Co.,...

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