Legal Opinion
Mary Oil & Gas Co. v. Raines
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 17, 1925No. 15178PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PH1SLPS, J.
On the 7th day of August, 1908, Jennie Bruner, a full-blood Creek Indian, executed an oil and gas mining lease cowering her 160-aere homestead and surplus allotment in Tulsa county, Okla., to W. A. iSpringer and E. R. Minchell, said lease being on the regular departmental form and duly approved. Afterwards the lessees assigned this lease to the Mary Oil & Gas Company. There was a provision in the lease giving the lessees the—
“Exclusive right to prospect for, extract, pipe, store, and remove all the oil and natural gas, and to occupy and use so much only of the surface of said land…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Westmoreland N. Gas Co. v. DeWittSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. SandersonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
- Brennan v. HunterSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1918
- Squires v. LaffertyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1924
- Rennie v. Red Star Oil Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1920
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Tenneco Oil Company v. AllenSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1973
- Texas Co. v. MosshamerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1935
- Powell Briscoe, Inc. v. PetersSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1954
- Lone Star Producing Company v. JurySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1968
- Cosden Oil & Gas Co. v. HickmanSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1925