Tiger v. Jewell

This appeal is prosecuted to reverse a judgment and decree of the district court of Wagoner county, Okla., quieting the title of the defendants on their cross-petition, against the plaintiff, who sued for the lands in question. Marchie Tiger, an enrolled full-blood Indian citizen of the Creek Nation, inherited four separate 160-acre tracts, which embrace all of the lands in lit-gation herein. On the 27th of July, 10OS, Marchie Tiger executed an instrument to James A. Harris which on its face purported to. vest in the said James A. Harris the title lo said property, to be held in trust by him…