NILSEN v. TENNECO OIL CO.

No. 48399.

614 P.2d 36 (1980)

Carl A. NILSEN, Appellee, v. The TENNECO OIL COMPANY, a corporation, and Amoco Production Company, a corporation, Appellants. HADSON OHIO OIL COMPANY, a corporation, J.C. Roberts and Ruth K. Roberts, husband and wife, Kendall K. Kitson, and Gretchen E. Huber, Appellees, v. The TENNECO OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Amoco Production Company, a corporation, and Bessie Hamby, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected On Denial of Rehearing July 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Porta & Bass, A Professional Corp., by James C. Bass, El Reno, for appellees.

Watson, McKenzie & Dunlevy by H.B. Watson, Jr., Oklahoma City, for appellants.


BARNES, Justice:

The appeal before us in from a quiet title action involving ownership of both the surface and mineral estates of a section of land on the South Canadian River located in Canadian County, Oklahoma.

Because the various litigants claiming ownership of the various surface and mineral rights acquired their ownership through different chains of title, with portions of the mineral estate being severed at...

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