State of Oklahoma v. State of Texas United States
| Decision Date | 19 January 1925 |
| Docket Number | No. 13,13 |
| Citation | 45 S.Ct. 198,267 U.S. 7,69 L.Ed. 489 |
| Parties | STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. STATE OF TEXAS (UNITED STATES, Intervener) |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Mr. S. P. Freeling, of Oklahoma City, Okl., for the State of Oklahoma.
Messrs. C. W. Taylor, of Corsicana, Tex., and Orville Bullington and A. H. Carrigan, both of Wichita Falls, Tex., for the State of Texas.
On consideration of the thirteenth report of the receiver herein the court makes the following orders:
1. The receiver is instructed to pay the net proceeds derived from well 155, amounting to $4,514.47, to the Kirby Petroleum Company by way of partly reimbursing it for expense incurred by it or its predecessor in drilling that well prior to the receivership such payment to be in full discharge of all possible claims against the receivership by reason of that work and expense.
2. The receiver is instructed to pay a balance of $1,097.76 out of the net proceeds of well 156 to the Kirby Petroleum Company on its claim for expense incurred by it or its predecessor in drilling that well prior to the receivership—such payment to be in full discharge of all possible claims against the receivership by reason of that work and expense.
3. Unless within 40 days from this date Tom Testerman shall accept the moneys directed to be paid to him by paragraph 11 of the order of June 9, 1924, in discharge of the claim therein described, he shall be deemed to have abandoned that claim, and the moneys reserved to cover the same shall be paid over by the receiver to the Secretary of the Interior, as the representative of the United States, as a part of the net impounded funds derived from the receiver's operations within the river bed area. The receiver is instructed to deliver or transmit forthwith to Tom Testerman a copy of this order.
4. Unless within 40 days from this date the operators who presented claims for reimbursement out of the proceeds of well 139 (known as the Burke-Senator well) for the cost of drilling that well prior to the receivership shall adjust the differences between them and accept reimbursement as contemplated in paragraph 13 of the order of June 9, 1924, they are directed to show cause, within five days after the expiration of that period, why those claims should not be denied and why the moneys reserved to cover them should not be paid over to the Secretary of the Interior, as the representative of the United States, as part of the net impounded funds derived from river bed wells. The receiver is instructed to deliver or transmit forthwith to such claimants copies of this order.
5. Pursuant to a stipulation made and presented by the conflicting claimants thereto, the receiver is instructed to pay the balance of the net royalty interest in the proceeds of wells 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 109, and 119 to A. H. Carrigan, as the joint agent and trustee of such claimants, to the end that he, according to such stipulation, may deposit such moneys in the First National Bank of Wichita...
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State of Oklahoma v. State of Texas United States
...with directions to take the evidence and report the same with findings of fact, conclusions of law and recommendations for a decree. 267 U. S. 7, par. 8, 45 S. Ct. 198, 69 L. Ed. ——. The master made his report with findings, conclusions and recommendations favorable to the claim of Roberts ......