Legal Opinion
City of Tulsa v. Oklahoma Natural Gas Co.
District Court, E.D. Oklahoma
Decided February 18, 1925PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNAMER, District Judge.
The city of Tulsa, Okl., was incorporated under the provisions of chapter 29 of Mansfield Digest of the Compiled -Laws 'of Arkansas 1884, which laws had been extended over and put in force in the Indian' Territory by an Act of Congress of May 2, 1890 (26 Sta-t, 94). By Act of Congress of June 28, 1898 (30 Stat. 499), power was given to incorporated municipalities to contract and to be contracted with. In the exfereise of this power the city of .Tulsa, on the 9th day of July, 1903, entered- into a. contract in the nature of a franchise with the grantors of the…
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