WOODS PETROLEUM CORP. v. SLEDGE

No. 52763.

632 P.2d 393 (1981)

WOODS PETROLEUM CORPORATION, a corporation, Appellant, v. Olen SLEDGE; Claude P. Neely; Luella Neely Marshall; R.H. Drewry; Joel W. Wilkinson, Jr.; Dereen Clellant; Harold T. Garvin; Don Hutto Garvin; Henry C. Bonney; Willette W. Bonney; John H. Kennedy; Evangeline Kennedy; Roy A. Pettit; Carole Daube Sutton and W.C. Wright, Co-Trustees of the Carole Daube Sutton Trust; Daube Partnership Limited; Sam Daube; Leon Daube; Tom Cardwell; Olive H. Daube; Ida Sutton Williams; Roy A. Pettit, Individually; W.C. Wright, Individually; Henry J. Fowler; Bobby Ray Patterson; Etta May Patterson; Ivo Monroe Patterson; Lois Aline Patterson; Edith W. Leach; Mary W. Thompson; Cleo Jones; H. Pitman Jones; Charlotte Ann Hill; Billy D. Jones; Bruce Shepherd, Executor of the Estate of Lu Shepherd, Deceased; G.T. Blankenship, Executor of the Estate of Daisy Blankenship, Deceased; Garold Earnhardt; Defendants, Lela Owens Hamilton, Hattie Harpole, Ephraim McKinney, J.R. Neely, Edna M. Winans, Sophia McKinney and David Roberts, if living or if deceased, the heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, immediate or remote, whether known or unknown of said defendants; and Robert A. Garbrecht, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

July 21, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brown & Lockhart by James H. Lockhart and Gordon F. Brown, Oklahoma City, for appellant.

Otey & Evans by R. Rhys Evans, Ardmore, for appellees, Daube Partnerships, Ltd., a limited partnership, and W.C. Wright, Carole Daube Sutton and Jack Newman, Trustees of the Carole Sutton Trust.


HODGES, Justice.

Although the issue of jurisdiction was not presented to the trial court, we find that the dispositive question on appeal is whether the district court had jurisdiction to entertain an action to quiet title after the Corporation Commission had entered an order substantially affecting the same rights. Questions of jurisdiction may be raised at any time, either in the trial court or on appeal; and even in the...

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