PANHANDLE COOP. ROYALTY CO. v. PERRY

PANHANDLE COOP. ROYALTY CO. v. PERRY
1938 OK 243
82 P.2d 823
183 Okla. 405
Case Number: 27469
Decided: 04/05/1938
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

PANHANDLE CO-OPERATIVE ROYALTY CO. et al.
v.
PERRY

Syllabus

Appeal from District Court, Jackson County; John B. Wilson, Judge.

Action by A. L. Perry in his individual capacity and as executor of the estate of Alice Perry, deceased, against the Panhandle Co-Operative Royalty Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and certain defendants appeal. Reversed and remanded, with directions.

V. E. Stinchcomb, for plaintiff in error Panhandle Co-Operative Royalty Company.
S. H. King, Lynn Adams, and Hayes, Richardson, Shartel, Gilliland & Jordan, for plaintiffs in error Flag Oil Company and Flag Oil Corporation.
W. C. Austin, Robert B. Harbison, and L. B. Yates, for defendant in error.

PHELPS, J.

¶0 This is a companion case to cause No. 27462, Farmers Union CoOperative Royalty Co. et al. v. J. R. Southward et al, this day decided, 183 Okla. 402, 82 P.2d 879. The cases were consolidated for trial in the district court and tried together. Separate judgments were rendered, and the causes are here on separate appeals.

¶1 The facts relating to the plan of operation in creating the royalty pool are the same as in cause No. 27462 except the names of the grantors and grantees, the date of the contracts, and the description of the mineral rights conveyed and the number of headrights alleged to have been contemplated by the parties at the time of the execution of the agreements.

¶2 In the present action the American Finance Corporation was made a party defendant, and, on its motion, the action as to such defendant was dismissed by the trial court, from which order there is no crossappeal. The assignments of error and the questions of law presented are identical with those in cause No. 27462 and are fully discussed therein. It is, therefore, unnecessary for this court to discuss the questions involved here further than they have been discussed in No. 27462, and the rules of law therein announced are announced as the rules in this case.

¶3 Accordingly the judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause remanded, with directions to dismiss the action.