Holmes v. Sinclair Prairie Oil Co.

Sinclair Oil & Gas Company (formerly Sinclair Prairie Oil Company) and others, some of the defendants in error, recovered judgment upon the pleadings against Caesar Holmes, plaintiff in error, who prosecutes this appeal.

Defendants in error move to dismiss the appeal upon ground it is without merit and frivolous.

The controversy involves the possession and ownership of and accounting for oil and gas produced from southwest quarter of section 16, township 18 north, range 7 east, situate in Creek county, Oklahoma, which was allotted to Lete Kolvin, an enrolled fullblood Creek Indian, who died…