Myatt v. Ponca City Land and Improvement Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District Court of Kay County; before Bayard T. Mainer, Trial Judge. STATEMENT OE PACTS. This is an action to quiet title to lot 20, block 38, in the townsite of Hartman, a legal subdivision of the city of Ponca City, in Kay county, Territory of Oklahoma. This action was commenced in the district court of Kay •county, September 1, 1900, and on November 23 following, defendant, The Ponca City Land and Improvement Co., filed its answer and cross petition.
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Error from the District Court of Kay County; before Bayard T. Mainer, Trial Judge. STATEMENT OE PACTS. This is an action to quiet title to lot 20, block 38, in the townsite of Hartman, a legal subdivision of the city of Ponca City, in Kay county, Territory of Oklahoma. This action was commenced in the district court of Kay •county, September 1, 1900, and on November 23 following, defendant, The Ponca City Land and Improvement Co., filed its answer and cross petition. To this answer and cross petition plaintiff made reply ■on December 3, 1900. Upon the issues thus made or attempted to be made…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
Gillette, J.:
The foregoing is as near a statement of the origin of this corporation as we are able to evolve from the 400 and more pages of record before us.
The various proceedings and transactions of this assumed corporation since the filing of its articles of incorporation are not disclosed by the record, and in the view we have taken of the ease it becomes unnecessary to unravel all its mysterious manipulations and proceedings.
If anything were needed to add to or confirm our impressions of the chief object and purpose of its creation, it would be furnished by the end…
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