BOMFORD v. SOCONY MOBIL OIL CO.

No. 40869.

440 P.2d 713 (1968)

Wright BOMFORD, Audrey S. Bomford, Tom Bomford, Dan German, and Dan German, Executor of the Estate of Dee German, Deceased, Plaintiffs in Error, v. SOCONY MOBIL OIL CO., Inc., a New York Corporation, Major Royalty Corporation, a corporation, R.B. Eavans, Marie Evelyn Eavans, Guy Looper, Lena A. Looper, F.L. Finley, R.J. Dollar, Paul A. Tucker, and the Unknown Heirs, and Heirs, Administrators, Executors, Legatees, Devisees, Trustees and Assigns, Immediate and remote, of Sampson Joe, Deceased, Choctaw Roll No. 4828, and The Unknown Claimants to the lands involved herein, the Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Legatees, Devisees, Trustees and Assigns, immediate and remote, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

April 9, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.F. Semple, Tulsa, for plaintiffs in error.

Carloss Wadlington, Ada, for defendants in error.


McINERNEY, Justice.

This case turns on the validity of a prior quiet-title decree interposed as a bar to the present action. The decree is challenged for fatal defects in the publication process on which it is rested. At issue below was plaintiffs' title to a mineral estate underlying land situated in Latimer County. Their appeal is from an adverse judgment of the trial court.

Plaintiffs deraign their title to the...

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