Jennings v. Canady

FARIS, District Judge.

From a decree denying their lien, under the laws of the state of Oklahoma, for an attorney’s fee, appellants, who had intervened in the ease, appealed. The pertinent facts follow:

Lonzetta Canady, a descendant of a freedman member of the tribe of Creek Indians, and at the time of commencing the original action a minor, lacking but 97 days of her majority, owned a tract of land on which there had, some years before, been found a very valuable oil basin, and on which an oil and gas lease had some years before been made by her father, as her guardian. This lease, by mesne…