City of Ponca City v. Drummond

Opinion by

LYONS, O.

The parties will be referred to as in the count below. The plaintiffs sued the defendant to recover damages or compensation for the taking and appropriation by the defendant (a municipal corporation) of certain real estate for sewer purposes. There is practically no dispute as to the facts.

It appears that an oil refining company, a private corporation, condemned a right of way across plaintiffs’ lands for the purpose of laying a sewer or drain across said property. The commissioners appointed under the applicable statute in the condemnation proceedings found “that the…