Ellis v. Panther Oil & Gas Co.

This is an appeal from an order refusing to vacate the appointment of a receiver. The trial court appo’nted a temporary receiver of a certain oil and gas leasehold, drilling and operating equipment and oil runs from a small producing oil well in Pottawatomie county. The parties appear here in reverse order and will he referred to as they appeared in the lower court.

The defendant presents in his brief two grounds for reversal of the order refusing to vacate the appointment of this receiver. These are:(1) That the plaintiff’s petition was insufficient to authorize the appointment of a…