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SALVATION ARMY v. MORRIS

Civ. No. 68-86.

294 F.Supp. 158 (1968)

The SALVATION ARMY, a Georgia corporation, Plaintiff, v. Thomas J. MORRIS, Kathryne Morris Leverett, Gertrude Morris Hudspeth, Daisy Morris Moore Duvall, and Ruth Morris Zelief Dunkin, Individual Defendants, and Phillips Petroleum Co., Mobil Oil Corporation, the British-American Oil Producing Company, P. G. Lake, Inc., Sinclair Oil and Gas Company, Cities Service Oil Company, and Mid-American Oil Company, Corporate Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Oklahoma.

September 30, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. P. Murrah, Jr., of Mosteller, Andrews & Mosburg, Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiff.

C. Harold Thweatt, of Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford, Johnson & Burdick, Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendants Leverett, Hudspeth, Duvall and Zelief.

R. C. Jopling, Jr., of Fowler, Rucks, Baker, Jopling, Gramlich & Mee, Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendant P. G. Lake, Inc.

John C. Lovett, Bartlesville, Okl., for defendant Cities Service Oil Co.

S. M. Groom, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendant Mobil Oil Corp.

Derrill Cody, Tulsa, Okl., for defendant Sinclair Oil and Gas Co.

Galen E. Ward, Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendant Phillips Petroleum Co.

John W. Stewart and James B. Diggs, Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendants The British-American Oil Producing Co. and Mid-American Oil Co.

ORDER

DAUGHERTY, District Judge.

Under a will executed in 1937 by J. W. Morris, Defendant Thomas J. Morris inherited the bulk of Testator's property, taking same as residuary legatee. The other individual Defendants, as legatees, were cut off with $1.00 each. As some of the property devised by this will involves mineral interests from which royalties are earned, the corporate Defendants appear herein as stakeholders.

In 1939, J. W. Morris executed...

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