Boone v. Claxton

DAVISON, Justice.

This suit, of equitable cognizance, was brought by the plaintiffs, C. E. Claxton and C. C. Claxton, to quiet their title, founded upon a resale tax deed, to a fifty acre tract of land in Carter County, Oklahoma, as against the defendants, Harriet Boone, nee Frazier, the original allottee and owner, and Edwin B. Cox, Kewanee Oil Company and Schermerhorn Oil Corporation, oil and gas lessees from the said Harriet Boone, nee Frazier. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

The 50 acres, here involved, was a part of the 250 acre allotment of Harriet…