Case of Water Rights Quagmire in Oklahoma Going Back to Trial

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In January 2006, physician Richard Stansberry appeared before the Oklahoma County Planning Commission. He was there to explain what was happening with a plan to build a single-family, residential subdivision on a parcel of land he had owned for decades.

"Dr. Richard Stansberry, area landowner, stated that the water rights had been a problem for quite a while," read the minutes from the meeting. "Mr. Stansberry stated that the water right issue was still a problem to be settled by the courts. ... The court case was between Deer Creek Water, Medicine Lodge, and himself."

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Case of Water Rights Quagmire in Oklahoma Going Back to Trial

The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals made a decision recently that will keep the issue tangled up in the courts a while longer. The court reversed the District Court of Oklahoma Co...

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