Texas Co. v. State ex rel. Coryell

This is an appeal from judgment escheating lands and oil and gas rights in lands described in 15 separate tracts located in Creek county, acquired and held by the Texas Company, a Delaware corporation, licensed and doing business in the State of Oklahoma. The corporation is authorized by its charter to engage in mining, the production, storage, transportation, refining, manufacture, purchase and sale of mineral products, and oil and gas, and to acquire real and personal property for its use.

The issues before the trial court involved construction and application of section 2, art. 22,…