Gourley v. Countryman

Opinion of the court by

Burford, C. J.: This is a suit in equity to have a resulting trust declared. The defendant in error, Countryman, holds the patent from the United States to eighty acres of land located in Oklahoma county, Oklahoma, more particularly described as the north 1-2 of the northeast 1-4 of section 28, township 11 north, range 3 W. I. M., and the plaintiff claims that in the determination of the several claims to said land before the land department of the United States, prior to issue of patent, the law was improperly decided against him and in favor of Countryman, whereby the…