Legal Opinion
Bomford v. Socony Mobil Oil Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided April 9, 1968No. 40869PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McINERNEY, Justice.
This case turns on the validity of a prior quiet-title decree interposed as a bar to the present action. The decree is challenged for fatal defects in the publication process on which it is rested. At issue below was plaintiffs’ title to a mineral estate underlying land situated in Latimer County. Their appeal is from an adverse judgment of the trial court.
Plaintiffs deraign their title to the minerals through mesne conveyances from a Choctaw allottee. The last muniment of title vested in them in 1923. Defendants are purchasers of a mineral estate from one who had acquired…
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