In re Grayson
Court Of Appeals Of Indian Territory
Appeal from the United States Court for the Northern District. John R. Thomas, Judge. Proceedings in bankruptcy by Grayson Bros. Appeal from an order refusing final discharge till petitioners should turn over certain property. G. W. Grayson and Samuel Grayson are Creek Indians by blood, and were doing business at Eufaula, an incorporated town in the Creek Nation, under the firm name and style of Grayson Bros.
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Appeal from the United States Court for the Northern District. John R. Thomas, Judge. Proceedings in bankruptcy by Grayson Bros. Appeal from an order refusing final discharge till petitioners should turn over certain property. G. W. Grayson and Samuel Grayson are Creek Indians by blood, and were doing business at Eufaula, an incorporated town in the Creek Nation, under the firm name and style of Grayson Bros. On the 16th day of February, 1899, they filed their petition in the United States Court at Muskogee, Ind. T., praying that they be adjudged bankrupts, etc. The petition was referred to…
1Opinion of the CourtClayton, C. J.
*499Bankrupt entitled to exemptions under Arkansas Lav. *502Improvements on Indian lands exempt to Indian Bankrupt. *498Prom the foregoing statement of facts it will be observed that in this case there ■ are four classes of property claimed as exempt under the bankrupt laws: First, improvements on Indian farming lands; second, improvements erected by the individual partners upon town lots in an incorporated town, and occupied by them as homes; *499third, other improvements on lots in the same town; not occupied or claimed as homesteads; and, fourth, personal property. As to the improvements of the individual…
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