Indian Land & Trust Co. v. Shoenfelt
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals in the Indian Territory. The Indian Land & Trust Company, a corporation, exhibited its bill in equity against J. Blair Shoenfelt, United States Indian agent, Samantha Barnett, and T. A. Barnett, the guardian of Sally Hodge, a minor, in the United States Court in the Indian Territory, in the Western District at Muskogee.
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Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals in the Indian Territory. The Indian Land & Trust Company, a corporation, exhibited its bill in equity against J. Blair Shoenfelt, United States Indian agent, Samantha Barnett, and T. A. Barnett, the guardian of Sally Hodge, a minor, in the United States Court in the Indian Territory, in the Western District at Muskogee. The material averments of the bill disclosed these facts: In August, 1902, Samantha Barnett, the mother of the minor, Sally Hodge, and one Luke Nevins, her stepfather, leased to the complainant, a corporation, for the term of five…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
The seventh amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which has been extended over the Indian Territory by act of Congress (26 Stat. pp. 81-96, c. 182, § 31), provides that “in suits at common law where the value in controversy exceeds twenty dollars the right to trial by jury shall be preserved and no fact tried by jury shall be otherwise re-examined by any court in the United States than according to the rules of the common law.” Congress has enacted that “suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate and…
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