# Wewoka Petroleum Corporation v. Gilmore

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · October 1, 1957 · 319 P.2d 285

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9535174

## Case

- **Full name:** WEWOKA PETROLEUM CORPORATION, a Dissolved Oklahoma Corporation; Carl Stolle, G. H. Strang and John M. Baker, Successors to the Assets of Wewoka Petroleum Corporation, a Dissolved Oklahoma Corporation, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Charles v. GILMORE, Defendant in Error
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** October 1, 1957
- **Citations:** 319 P.2d 285; 8 Oil & Gas Rep. 632; 1957 OK 227; 1957 Okla. LEXIS 614
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Welch
- **Judges:** Welch, Williams, Corn, Davison, Halley, Johnson, Blackbird, Jackson, Carlile
- **Cited by:** 10 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9535174

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that, pursuant to state statute, voluntarily dissolved corporations continue to exist for purposes of being sued

## Opinion text

WELCH, C. J., and WILLIAMS, J.,
dissent in part and specifically as to the determination on the proposition of the intangible tax statute, and in all other respects they concur in the opinion.
The Court acknowledges the aid of the Supreme Court Commissioners in the preparation of this opinion. After a tentative opinion was there written, the cause was assigned to a Justice of this Court. Thereafter, upon report and consideration in conference, the foregoing opinion was adopted by the Court.

---

Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9535174. Public record. Not legal advice.