Grand River Dam Authority v. Thompson

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Grand River Dam Authority, is a public corporation agency and instrumentality of the State of Oklahoma, created by an Act of the Oklahoma Legislature approved April 26, 1935, Old.Session Laws, 1935, Chapter 70, Art. 4, Sec. 1, 82 Old.St.Ann. § 861, in which it is authorized and empowered, among other things, to control, store and preserve the waters of Grand River and its tributaries for any useful purpose and to develop and generate water power and electric energy through the use thereof, and to sell and distribute the electrical energy produced.

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