Loriaux v. Corporation Commission

BARNES, Justice:

This appeal evolves from proceedings instituted in this State’s Corporation Commission [hereinafter referred to as “Commission”] during 1971, on the application of said Commission’s Pollution Abatement Manager, for an order requiring Francis R. Loriaux [Appellant herein] to plug the allegedly abandoned oil and gas wells on two leases [hereinafter referred to as the “Sherwood” and “Koopman” leases] collectively covering a Nowata County quarter section of land.

Loriaux filed an answer denying he had abandoned the leases and averring that he had assigned them to one Hancock in…