State v. Kirchner

This is a tax ferret proceeding prosecuted by the county attorney of Creek county, presenting the question as to whether or not a nonproducing oil and gas and mineral and royalty grant by which the oil and gas and mineral rights have been severed from the surface rights in the land is subject to ad valorem taxation separately from the land containing the same. The county court of said county held that the rights, interests, and estate conveyed by deed is nontaxable by the ad valorem method in' the name of and against the grantee, but that the same must be taxed as real property to the owner…