Legal Opinion · Dissent

Brown v. Wilson

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided January 11, 1916No. 7370Published

Error from Superior Court, Muskogee County; H. C. Thurmcm, Judge. Action by L. B. Brown and others against M. S. Wilson and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error.

1DissentKane, C. J.

I am unable to concur in the conclusion reached by the majority of the court, and, on account of the importance of the questions involved, I deem it advisable to set out the grounds of my dissent in a separate opinion.

This is a controversy between the lessors of a tract of undeveloped oil land and certain of their lessees and their sublessees on one side, and subsequent purchasers from the lessors and another group of lessees and their sublessees on the other. John S. Ruhl and Lena Ruhl, his wife, are the common lessors and grantors.

On the 17th day of June, 1912, they executed an oil and gas…

2Cases cited52 opinions

  1. Brewster v. Lanyon Zinc Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
  2. Guffey v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
  3. Kolachny v. GalbreathSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1910
  4. Frank Oil Co. v. Belleview Gas & Oil Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
  5. Watford Oil & Gas Co. v. ShipmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1908

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