Poafpybitty v. Skelly Oil Company

LAVENDER, Justice:

This is an appeal from a judgment for defendant by the District Court of Oklahoma County and its Order sustaining a motion for summary judgment by defendant Skelly Oil Company, oil and gas mining lessee of allotted lands held in trust for plaintiff Indians by the United States. Plaintiffs’ petition alleged that, notwithstanding demand by plaintiffs upon defendant to market gas being produced and flared from wells on plaintiffs’ land, defendant failed and, refused to do so, although there was a gas line operated by Lone Star Gas Company within one-half mile of the land on…