Legal Opinion
Baze v. Scott
District Court, E.D. Oklahoma
Decided October 4, 1938No. 6611PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
RICE, District Judge.
This case involves the disposition of oil and gas royalties derived from the homestead allotment of a deceased fullblood Indian leaving heirs born after March 4, 1906, under Section 9 of the Act of May 27, 1908, 35 Stat. 312, 315.
The essential facts for a determination of the question involved were agreed upon. Hickman Willis, the allottee, was a full-blood Mississippi Choctaw Indian. He died on July 17, 1925, and left surviving the plaintiff, born after March 4, 1906, and the defendant Lonie Scott, born prior to March 4, 1906. The oil and gas lease was. executed' by…
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- Higgins Oil & Fuel Co. v. SnowCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1902
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