Sturm v. Wiess
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma. Suit in equity by Lizzie E. Wiess, executrix, and others, against H. L. Sturm, executor, and others. From the decree, both parties appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS, District Judge.
This suit was instituted in April, 1914, by William Wiess, Joseph S. Cullinan, Fred Fleming, and Estelle B. Sharp as executrix of the estate of W. B. Sharp, deceased, against H. L. Sturm and James R. Sharp, executors of the estate of J. W. Sturm, deceased, J. W. Sloan, J. E. Crosbie, G. S. Davis and another, and comes here on cross-appeals. Its purpose was to obtain an adjudication of alleged equitable rights and interests in three oil and gas leases on three separate tracts in Pawnee County, Oklahoma. They were all given in the summer of 1904, and in January, 1906, by…
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