Legal Opinion

Denver, W. & M. Ry. Co. v. Adkinson

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided January 10, 1911No. 722PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Error from District Court, Rogers County; T. L. Brown, Judge. Ejectment by Ella M. Adkinson by her next friend, J. M. Adkinson, against the Denver, Wichita & Memphis Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the CourtDunn, C. J.

This case presents error from the district court of Rogers county, and was an action of ejectment brought under the laws in force in the Indian Territory prior to statehood. The defendant in error, as plaintiff in the ■ court below, brought her action to recover the possession of a strip of land twenty-five feet wide, running through a tract of land which was allotted to her as a member of the Cherokee Tribe of Indians. It is made to appear by the petition that on the 10th day of September, 1906, at the time of the allotment in question, the de fendant, the Denver Wichita & Memphis Railway…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Lake Erie & Western Railway Co. v. KinseyIndiana Supreme Court · 1882
  2. Sherman v. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1876
  3. Hill v. First National BankSupreme Court of Kansas · 1889
  4. White v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R'y Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1884
  5. Hammerslough v. HackettSupreme Court of Kansas · 1883

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. STATE ex rel. DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION v. LAMAR ADVERTISING OF OKLAHOMA, INC.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 2014
  2. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. McCulleySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
  3. Denney v. State Ex Rel. KingSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1937
  4. State ex rel. Warnick v. WilsonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1947
  5. Cooper v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1912

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