Cushenbery v. Waite-Phillips Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson,-J.:

These four lawsuits involve the interests of rival lessees holding under oil and gas leases executed by common grantors, and chiefly relate to a considerable acreage of accreted lands lying between the meandered lines of the west bank of the Arkansas river as of the time of the United States government survey in 1871 and the river bank as it is now located.

The grantors of the leases were A. P. Douthitt, Ike E. and Robbie Nelson, Ben Thurlow and W. E. Holman. These grantors are the owners of certain lands lying alongside the Arkansas river in…