Legal Opinion
Argo Oil Corporation v. Lathrop
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided October 20, 1955No. File 9496-9497PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSickel, J.
This is an action brought by Argo Oil Corporation, plaintiff and appellant, to determine the ownership of the mineral rights in property situated in Pennington County. The State of South Dakota, defendant, answered claiming to be the owner of all the oil, gas and mineral rights in the land subject only to the rights of the plaintiff under a mineral lease executed by the Rural Credit Board, a department of the state government, to R. E. Driscoll, Jr., trustee, dated April 25, 1950. This lease was assigned to plaintiff on May 1, 1952.
It is the contention of the plaintiff and the State that the…
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