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Title: Colonial Royalties Co. v. Sitler
Author : Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma
Release Date : January 15, 1956
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 60 KB

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1 This action was instituted by Edgar P. Sitler, Robert E. Sitler and Antone Copenhaver against the Colonial Royalties Company, a corporation, to quiet title to 157 1/2 acres of land in Okmulgee County. Plaintiffs base their claim of title and ownership in the land on a deed issued December 22, 1941 by the Board of County Commissioners of Okmulgee County to the plaintiff, Antone Copenhaver, who subsequently conveyed an interest to the other plaintiffs. The land was sold to Okmulgee County at a delinquent tax sale in 1930, and thereafter in 1939 a resale tax deed was issued to the Board of County Commissioners pursuant to a resale of the land. Plaintiffs allege that they have been in the continuous, actual, open and peaceable possession of the land under claim of ownership since December 22, 1941, the date of the execution of the deed by the Board of County Commissioners to the plaintiff, Copenhaver, said deed having been recorded on February 12, 1943. The defendant, Colonial Royalties Company, a corporation, filed an answer denying plaintiffs title and possession in and to the land and alleged that the resale tax deed to Okmulgee County, and the deed by the Board of County Commissioners to the plaintiff, Antone Copenhaver, were void because of irregularities and insufficient notice of resale, and further allege that Colonial Royalties Company was the owner under a deed recorded in 1925 of an undivided 3/16ths mineral interest in the land involved, and by cross-petition allege its ownership of said mineral interest, and pray that its title thereto be quieted. Upon trial of the issues judgment was entered for the plaintiffs, and the defendant, Colonial Royalties Company, appealed.