Shore v. Shell Petroleum Corp.

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

The issue in these eases is, Who owns certain portions of the Arkansas River bed in Sumner County, Kansas, — the State of Kansas or appellants who claim as riparian proprietors. The bills allege that the river has always been non-navigable in its course through Sumner County, that the state’s executive council composed of state officers, including the Governor as a member, had given oil and gas leases on the river bed to some of the a.ppellees who had put down wells on the portions of the bed claimed by appel*2lants, were producing oil therefrom, paying royalties on the oil…