BATES v. OLD MAC COAL CO.

No. 35798.

271 P.2d 315 (1954)

BATES et al. v. OLD MAC COAL CO. et al.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

May 25, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George & George, Ardmore, Richardson, Cochran, Dudley, Fowler & Rucks, Oklahoma City, Clint Braden, Wilburton, for plaintiffs in error.

Bob Perdue, Wilburton, for defendants in error.


CORN, Justice.

In 1918 Emma Arnall and Elizabeth MacFate resided in Washington, D.C., where they were government employees. They had acquired the land (80 acres) herein involved by government patent, issued on behalf of the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian Nations, conveying fee-simple title subject only to the government's reservation of the coal and asphalt rights in the land. December 24, 1918, the patentees conveyed the land...

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