Case Name: APPEAL OF GULF PIPE LINE CO.
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1916-05-02
Citations: 53 Okla. 563
Docket Number: No. 7199
Parties: APPEAL OF GULF PIPE LINE CO.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Oklahoma Reports
Volume: 53
Pages: 563–564

Head Matter:
APPEAL OF GULF PIPE LINE CO.
No. 7199.
Opinion Filed May 2, 1916.
(157 Pac. 333.)
REASSESSMENT FOR TAXATION. Reversed and remanded, upon authority of Prairie Oil & Gas Co. v. Cruce et al., 45 Okla. 774, 147 Pao. 152.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal from State Board of Equalization.
From the reassessment and increase of valuation of its property, for purposes of taxation, by the State Board of Equalization, the Gulf Pipe Line Company appeals.
Reversed and remanded, with instructions.
James B. Diggs, Henry McGraiv, and R. M. Greenslade, for appellant.
S. P. Freeling, Atty. Gen., and R. E. Wood,_ Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
KANE, C. J.
This is an appeal by the Gulf Pipe Line Company from the action of the State Board of Equalization in reassessing and revaluing its property for purposes of taxation, and increasing the value thereof, taken by said board on the 13th day of August, 1914.
In this court it is stipulated by and between the Attorney General and counsel for the Gulf Pipe Line Company as follows:
"It is hereby agreed and stipulated that the increased assessment appealed from in the above-styled matter was made by the State Board of Equalization under identically the same facts as the assessment made against the Prairie Oil & Gas Company, as shown by the record in Prairie Oil & Gas Company v. Cruce et al., 45 Okla. 774, 147 Pac. 152, and that on the facts shown by the record in the above appeal the decision in the Prairie Oil & Gas Case controls this case; and for this reason it is further stipulated that the appeal be submitted to the court without putting the parties thereto to the expense of printing briefs."
In pursuance of said stipulation, .and upqn the authority of the above-entitled cause, the action of the State Board of Equalization must be reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to proceed in accordance with the directions contained in said'cause.
All the Justices concur.