Sanders v. Sanders
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the United States Court for the Western District of the Indian Territory, at Tulsa; Willicm B. Lawrence, Judge. Action by Jiidson C. Fast against John W. Sanders and others. Judgment lor plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
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Error from the United States Court for the Western District of the Indian Territory, at Tulsa; Willicm B. Lawrence, Judge. Action by Jiidson C. Fast against John W. Sanders and others. Judgment lor plaintiff, and defendant brings error. On August 26, 1907, Judson C, Fast, one of defendants in error, plaintiff below, sued John W. Sanders, plaintiff in error, one of defendants below, individually and as guardian of Elizabeth Sanders, Maud Sanders and Millard Sanders, minors, and Warren Mooney, defendants in error, defendants below, in the United States Court for the Indian Territory, Western…
1Opinion of the CourtTurner, J.
(after stating the facts as above). By Judson C. Fast, hereinafter called plaintiff, it is urged,, in substance, that as the pleadings disclose that Sarah E. Sanders was a duly enrolled citizen of the Creek Nation of less than full blood; that on September 19, 1898, she, before the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, filed on the land in controversy and died in possession thereof before certificate of allotment issued and before the passage of the Act of Congress approved March 1, 1901; that therefore she acquired no estate of inheritance in said allotment, that her heirs under the…
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