Sass v. Thomas
Court Of Appeals Of Indian Territory
Appeal from the United States Court for the Southern. District. Hosea Townsend, Judge. Action by Minnie Thomas and another against Morris Sass and J. D. Crawford, doing business under the firm name of Sass & Crawford. Judgment for plaintiffs. Defendants appeal.
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Appeal from the United States Court for the Southern. District. Hosea Townsend, Judge. Action by Minnie Thomas and another against Morris Sass and J. D. Crawford, doing business under the firm name of Sass & Crawford. Judgment for plaintiffs. Defendants appeal. This is an action of unlawful detainer on the part of Minnie Thomas and another, as plaintiffs, against Sass & Crawford, a firm composed of Morris Sass and J. D. Crawford, as defendants, to recover a certain tract or parcel of land situated in the town of Ardmore, Ind. T. The plaintiffs are husband and wife, and are both citizens of…
1Opinion of the CourtGill, J.
We have carefully examined the brief filed by the appellants in this case, and note the many errors complained of, and the careful and painstaking argument of counsel, wherein they seek to show that the court erred in its construction of the law'applicable to this case, but we are of the opinion that the court’s construction of that law was in all respects correct. An examination of the laws of the Chickasaw Nation (section 2 of the act of October 10, 1876; Laws Chickasaw Nation, p. 105) provides that the leasing of land within the limits of the nation is absolutely prohibited, under heavy…
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