ELLIS v. UNION OIL CO. OF CAL.

No. 51913.

630 P.2d 306 (1981)

Euen D. ELLIS, Appellee, v. UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, a corporation, Appellee, v. Gloria SAULS and Joann White, Co-Administratrices with Will Annexed of the Estate of Malinda Green, Deceased, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied June 22, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Robertson, Jr., George, Kenan, Robertson & Lindsey, Oklahoma City, John Wimbish, Houston, Tex., for Continental Oil Co.

Kelsey Hutchinson, Tulsa, for Texaco, Inc.

Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford, Johnson & Burdick, Oklahoma City, for Gloria Sauls and Joann White, Co-Administratrices of the Estate of Malinda Green, Deceased.

Leon C. Gavras, Tulsa, for Helmerich & Payne, Inc.; Maguire Oil Co.; Gary M. Maguire, Trustee under Trust dated 1/25/62 for the benefit of Gary McIlwaine Maguire, Jr.; Cary M. Maguire, Trustee under Trust dated 3/30/65 for the benefit of Melinda Amber Maguire; Cary M. Maguire, Trustee under Trust dated 12/28/72 for the benefit of Melinda Amber Maguire; Cary M. Maguire, Trustee under Trust dated 9/26/66 for the benefit of Ann Blaine Maguire; United Bank of Arizona, Trustee under Trust dated 12/15/76 for the benefit of Russell A. Maguire, Jr., a/k/a Russell Amber Maguire, and Barbara Newington.

Paul Hammons, Andrews, Davis, Legg, Bixler, Milsten & Murrah, Oklahoma City, for American Natural Gas Production Co.

Ivester & Ivester, Sayre, for Kenneth L. Reed & Georgia R. Reed.

William J. Ivester, Ivester & Braddock, Altus, for E.W. Ivester & Eunice E. Ivester.

Newell E. Wright, Jr., Perryman, Smith & Wright, Cheyenne, for Katherine T. Newman, E.C. Hayhow, Joy W. Taylor, J. Joseph Taylor and James C. Taylor, Norvelle R. Deruy, Randall N. Deruy, Darlene Deruy & Elizabeth Deruy.

J.W. Brown, Dallas, Tex., for May Petroleum, Inc., a corporation, May Drilling Partnership 1973-2, a limited partnership, & First City National Bank of Houston, Texas, for the account of May Drilling Partnership 1973-2, a limited partnership.

Holland Meacham, Elk City, for Euen D. Ellis.

Watson, McKenzie & Moricoli, Oklahoma City, for Union Oil Co. of California.


IRWIN, Chief Justice:

The medial line of the North Fork of the Red River in Sec. 33, Township 10 North, Range 26 West, Beckham County, Oklahoma, has moved in a northerly and easterly direction since the original survey in 1874. This plat1 shows the riparian lots (1-9) and the Left Bank (north side) and the Right Bank (south side) of the river as they existed in 1874. The plat also shows the medial line of the river as it existed in 1955...

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