Bruner v. Sanders
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Seminole County ; Robert M. Rainey, Judge. Action by Benjamin F. Bruner and others against Elijah Sanders and others. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs bring error. Plaintiffs in error on the 12th day of January, 1909, brought this action in the district court of Seminole county against defendants in error for possession of a certain tract of real estate situated in said county.
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Error from District Court, Seminole County ; Robert M. Rainey, Judge. Action by Benjamin F. Bruner and others against Elijah Sanders and others. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs bring error. Plaintiffs in error on the 12th day of January, 1909, brought this action in the district court of Seminole county against defendants in error for possession of a certain tract of real estate situated in said county. They allege in their petition that they are the owners of the legal estate in fee simple and of the equitable estate in the land they seek to recover. They allege that the defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtHayes, J.
(after stating the facts as above). Counsel for plaintiffs in error in their brief correctly state that the sole question in this case is: To whom did the allotment of Myers Bruner descend at the time of his death in the year 1902? Section £• of the act of Congress approved June 2, 1900, entitled, “An act to ratify an agreement between the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and the Seminole Tribe of Indians,” reads:
“If any member of the Seminole Tribe of Indians shall die after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the lands, money, and other property to…
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