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McElhany v. Langston

McELHANY Et Al. v. LANGSTON Et Al. (BEAUCHAMP Et Al., Interveners.)

McElhany v. Langston, 1924 OK 1170, 232 P. 375
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Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma · State Highest Courts
Decided
December 30, 1924
Docket
No. 14517
Judges
Jones
Citations
232 P. 3751924 OK 1170105 Okla. 2211924 Okla. LEXIS 526

Opinion of the Court — Jones

Opinion by JONES, O.

This case is a companion case to that of J. L. MeElhany et al., Plaintiffs in Error, v. Nora Langston et al., Defendants in Error, and John L. Beau-champ et al., Interveners in Error, No. 15003, 105 Okla. 209 . 232 Pac. 439 . And the appellants in this case were plaintiffs in case No. 15063, but seem to have filed separate answers, to which the court sustained a demurrer, interposed on the part of the defendants. Plaintiffs refused to make further amendments and elected to stand on their petition, and present this appeal assigning as error the action of the court in sustaining the demurrer. The identical question raised in this case NO'. 14517 has been disposed of in case No. 15063, this day decided. The demurrer was sustained to the petition of appellant herein upon the theory that it showed upon its face that the statute of limitation had run. The warranty deqd, under which appellees claim, was, attached tO' and made a part of plaintiffs petition, and upon its face shows to have been executed in 1902, and recorded more tbap 20 years prior to the institution of this suit, and the petition contains numerous other allegations showing delivery and due knowl-. edge on the part of the plaintiffs of all the facts and circumstances surrounding (this controversy, and knowledge of the open, notorious, adverse, peaceable and uninterrupted possession of the appellants of the lands in controversy since 1902, and other facts which give constructive notice; and we are inclined to the opinion that the judgment of the court in sustaining the demurrer was correct, and this case being an appeal based on the action of the court, in sustaining the demurrer of defendants to the appellant’s petition, which is the same petition involved m case No. 15063, heretofore (referred to, and the law applicable to and governing ithe rights of the 'appellants, H. M. McElhaniy and Nathan C. MeElhany, being identical with the law that governs the rights of appellants in case No. 15063, J. L. MeElhany and Jane Ledbetter, and the facts which are controlling being the same, we therefore adopt the syllabus and opinion in case No. 15063 as the syllabus and opinion in this case, and recommend that the same be affirmed.

By the Court: It is so ordered.

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1931: 11936: 11938: 11952: 11953: 119312026peak 1931 · 1

Relies on it most ⓘ

  1. City of Tulsa v. Harman1931 OK 73, 299 P. 462
  2. Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Skeen1952 OK 263, 248 P.2d 582
  3. Oklahoma Pipe Line Co. v. Fallin1936 OK 187, 56 P.2d 372
  4. Akers v. Rennie1938 OK 152, 77 P.2d 1112
  5. Evans v. St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.258 P.2d 933 (Okla. 1953)

Most recent

  1. Evans v. St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.258 P.2d 933 (Okla. 1953)
  2. Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Skeen1952 OK 263, 248 P.2d 582
  3. Akers v. Rennie1938 OK 152, 77 P.2d 1112
  4. Oklahoma Pipe Line Co. v. Fallin1936 OK 187, 56 P.2d 372
  5. City of Tulsa v. Harman1931 OK 73, 299 P. 462

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McElhany v. Langston, 1924 OK 1169, 232 P. 439 5

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