Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co. v. State

We will refer to plaintiffs in error as the leaseholders or by name. Defendants in error will be referred to as plaintiffs in those instances where all of them are included in the reference, and as Board of Agriculture or Land Commissioners where the reference is to only one of said agencies.

There were no controverted issues of fact presented in the trial court. They are all admitted and raise a single question of law as to whether certain oil and gas leases executed by the State Board of Land Commissioners are valid. The trial court adjudged that the leases were void and the leaseholders…