Legal Opinion
Jones v. Prairie Oil & Gas Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 24, 1927No. 109PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a bill in equity seeking the cancellation of oil and gas leases to, or held by, the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, and. for an account. The fundamental facts are as follows. Leonard D. Ingram was a member of the Muskogee (Creek) Nation and as such on July 1, 1907, received patents of homestead and other land, the homestead patent expressing the conditions provided by Act of Congress, that the land should be inalienable, &c., for twenty-one years. On January 3, 1911, the County Court of Wagoner County,-Oklahoma, made an order appointing Minerva Ingram, now Minerva Jones, guardian of…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Lipke v. LedererSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Hoyt v. SpragueSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Duff v. KeatonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1912
- Williams v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
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3Cited by25 opinions
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- United States v. Standard Oil Company of CaliforniaDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1937
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