Legal Opinion

Purcell Bank & Trust Co. of Purcell v. Byars

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided August 14, 1917No. 8227PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Error from District Court. McClain County; F. B. Swank, Judge. Action by Catherine Byars against the Purcell Bank & Trust Company of Purcell and A. F. Tooley Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

RUMMONS, C.

This is an action against the sureties upon the official bond of J. G. Siler as clerk of the district court of McClain county. The record discloses that the defendant in error, hereinafter styled the plaintiff, was the owner of a tract of land situate in the Indian Territory and what is now McClain county; that on April 18, 1916, the Oklahoma Central Railway Company instituted proceedings in the United States Court for the Southern District of the Indian Territory, at Purcell, to condemn a right of way across the lands of plaintiff. The United States Court appointed…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. Burlingame TownshipSupreme Court of Kansas · 1887
  2. First National Bank v. KingSupreme Court of Kansas · 1899
  3. Lower v. MillerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1885
  4. McDonnell v. Branch Bank at MontgomerySupreme Court of Alabama · 1852
  5. Moore v. State ex rel. DennyIndiana Supreme Court · 1876

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Dean v. Iowa-Des Moines National Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1938
  2. Volz v. State Roads CommissionCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1975
  3. State Ex Rel. v. Board of Com'rs of Pontotoc CountySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1926
  4. State Ex Rel. Gooch v. DrumrightSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1923
  5. Colwell v. ColwellOregon Supreme Court · 1919

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