Bradburn v. Shell Oil Co.

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

Nancy Bradburn, nee Yarhola, a full-blood Creek Indian devisee of an undivided two-fifths interest in her mother’s allotted lands, brought this action against the Shell Oil Company to recover certain proceeds of oil royalty from this interest paid by Shell to the trustees of her estate. The suit is based upon the contention that the designation of a successor trustee in 1929, amounted to a conveyance of the devised interest in the allotted lands within the meaning of the Act of April 12, 1926;1 that since the instrument designating the successor trustee was not approved…