Oklahoma Enabling Act as the State's temporary capital was challenged in court after Oklahoma City, Oklahoma won the election and the capital was moved prematurely. "Coyle v. Smith" was the US Supreme Court Case that helped define the equal footing doctrine. On December 29, 1910, the state of Oklahoma enacted a statute which removed the state capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City. W.H. Coyle, owner of large property interests in Guthrie, sued the state of Oklahoma, arguing that the move was performed in violation of the state constitution's acceptance of the terms of Congress's enabling act. The power given to Congress by Art.
Oklahoma State Highway 162 Oklahoma State Highway 162 State Highway 162 (SH-162/OK-162) is a 1.3-mile (2.1 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Oklahoma that provides access from US-62/US-64/SH-16 to the town of Taft. The highway lies entirely within Muskogee County. Serving as a spur route itself, the highway has no letter-suffixed spur routes of its own. SH-162 begins at the US-62/64/SH-16 expressway south of Taft, then proceeds due north for , ending on the western edge of town. The route's northern terminus is at Old Taft Road, the old alignment of US-62/64. From the routes' establishment into the mid-1960s, US-62 and US-64