Legal Opinion

Oil Fields & Santa Fe R. Co. v. Treese Cotton Co.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided February 3, 1920No. 9453PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Error from District Court, Payne County; John P. Hiekam, Judge. Action by the Treese Cotton Company against the Oil Fields & Santa Fe Railway Company for damages for obstructing street adjacent to its property, and condemnation proceedings by the Railway company to condemn and take the street and a strip of the Cotton company’s property. Actions consolidated. Appeal by Railway company from lower court’s judgment in favor of Cotton Company.

1Opinion of the CourtHiggins, J.

The Treese Cotton Company, defendant in error, was the owner of approximately one and three-quarter acres of land situated in the city of Cushing, upon which it owned and operated a cotton gin. While this gin was being operated the Oil Fields & Santa Fe Railway Company, plaintiff in error, constructed its line of railroad along the street immediately south of the gin company’s property extending its line eastward along this street and along the public highway leading to the country for a distance óf more than a mile. In 1915, the gin company sued the railroad company for damages for…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Blincoe v. Choctaw, Oklahoma & Western RailroadSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1905
  2. Foster Lumber Co. v. Arkansas Valley & W. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1908
  3. McKay v. City of EnidSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1910
  4. Arkansas Valley & Western Railway Co. v. WittSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1907

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Department of Transportation v. LittleSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2004
  2. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Terminal Oil Mill Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1937
  3. Wilkerson v. Grand River Dam AuthoritySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1945
  4. Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co. v. PrigmoreSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1937
  5. Grand River Dam Authority v. MisenhimerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1945

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