Corbyn v. Oklahoma City

HURST, V. C. J.

On September 17, 1891, Peter Fichtenmueller, the then owner of lot 26 in block 49 of the original townsite of Oklahoma City, conveyed the south 40 feet thereof to Choctaw Coal & Railway Company. The deed contained a reverter clause identical with that involved and quoted in Oklahoma City v. Local Federal Savings & Loan Ass’n, 192 Okla. 188, 134 P. 2d 565, Jones v. Oklahoma City, 193 Okla. 637, 145 P. 2d 971, and Fuhr v. Oklahoma City, 194 Okla. 482, 153 P. 2d 115. Fitchenmueller died in 1899, and in January, 1900, lot 26 was sold and conveyed by an administrator’s deed to J. H.…