Legal Opinion
Sunray Oil Co. v. Cortez Oil Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 4, 1941No. 29636PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRiley, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment and decree of the district court of Seminole county, enjoining Sunray Oil Company from using a well for disposal of salt water drilled for oil and gas on a tract of land in which Cortez Oil Company owned an undivided one-fourth mineral interest.
Prior to April, 1939, Burke-Greis Oil Company, and Rogers and Rogers, who held an oil and gas lease on the 80 acres, SE/4 of the NW14 and the SW14 of the NEi/4 of section 12, township 6 north, range 5 east, in Seminole county, had drilled on the leased area a test well for oil and gas. (Southwest ten acres of the SW%…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Cuff v. KosloskySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1933
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