Oklahoma v. Texas, 23

• Decision Date: 24 January 1921
• Docket Number: No. 23,23
• Parties: STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. STATE OF TEXAS, UNITED STATES, INTERVENER.
• Court: U.S. Supreme Court

254 U.S. 603

STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. STATE OF TEXAS, UNITED STATES, INTERVENER.

No. 23, Original.

Supreme Court of United States.

Orders entered January 24, 1921.

IN EQUITY.

The motion of the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company, filed herein on December 20, 1920, for an order to require Frederic A. Delano, Esq., Receiver, to refund to it one-sixteenth (1/16) of the proceeds of the oil produced from certain premises in said motion described and heretofore deposited with said Receiver pursuant to the order of this Court, together with the interest collected thereon by said Receiver, and to require said Receiver to surrender and pay to said Sinclair Oil and Gas Company one-sixteenth (1/16) of the oil or the proceeds thereof delivered to said Receiver since the fifteenth day of October, 1920, is hereby denied, without prejudice.

The petition of the Oklahoma Petroleum and Gasoline Company, filed herein on December 20, 1920, for an order requiring Frederic A. Delano, Esq., Receiver, to file a statement of expenses incurred by him from May 16, 1920, to July 1, 1920, in operating certain wells designated in said petition, and requiring said Receiver to pay to said company the proceeds of one-sixteenth (1/16) of the oil produced from said wells from April 1, 1920, to November 15, 1920, and the interest collected by said Receiver upon said proceeds, and requiring said Receiver to refund to said company one-third (1/3) of the three-sixteenths (3/16) of the proceeds of the oil from said wells paid to said Receiver since November 15, 1920, and that said company be not required hereafter to pay to said Receiver more than two-sixteenths (2/16) of the oil and gas produced from said wells, and for other relief, is hereby denied, without prejudice.

The motion of C.J. Benson, William Murdock, and James R. Armstrong, filed herein December 20, 1920, for an order requiring Frederic A. Delano, Esq., Receiver, to file an inventory of certain material and equipment purchased by him and paid for out of the proceeds of the oil produced by him from certain premises in said motion described, and to account for the value thereof; and requiring said Receiver to file forthwith an itemized statement of moneys charged by him against certain wells and a statement of all sums of money realized by him from certain wells, and for other relief, as in said motion specified, is hereby denied, without prejudice.

Upon consideration of the motion of Southwest Petroleum Company, filed herein January...