Case ID: okla_122/html/0070-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PHELPS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE ex rel. BOATMAN, County Atty., et al. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF OKMULGEE COUNTY et al.
    No. 17810
    — Opinion Filed Nov. 23, 1926.
    Original action by the State of Oklahoma, on the relation of A. N. Boatman, County Attorney of Okmulgee; on relation of J. R. Jones, County Treasurer of Okmulgee County, and on relation of Bert C. Hodges, against Honorable J. H. Swan, Judge of the Superior Court of Okmulgee County, for writ of prohibition.
    Writ granted.
    A. N. Boatman, County Attorney of Ok-mulgee County, and R. W. Stoutz, for petitioners.
    Arthur H. McLain, Ephraim H. Foster, Chas. B. Steele, and Ben F. Mooring, for respondents.
   PHELPS, J.

The questions involved in this case are substantially identical with the questions involved in cause No. 17809, State of Oklahoma ex rel. A. N. Boatman, County Attorney of Okmulgee County, et al. v. James Hepburn, District Judge, 122 Okla. 69. 250 Pac. 1023, except that tlie restraining order was issued in this case by Honorable J. H. Swan, judge of the superior court of Okmulgee county, upon the petition of Sands Petroleum Company; the two causes being briefed and considered together. And upon the authorities cited in cause No. 17809, we reach the same conclusion in this case as we reached in that, and the opinion, conclusion. and syllabus reached in that case are hereby adopted and applied to this case, and upon the same the writ of prohibition is directed to be issued.

NICHOLSON, C. J., BRANSON. Y. C. J., and MASON, LESTER, HUNT, CLARK, and RILEY, JJ., concur. .