Lancaster v. Kathleen Oil Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the District Court of a suit involving the validity of gas and oil leases on lands of allottee Indians, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
This direct appeal is prosecuted to reverse the decree of the court below dismissing the suit on the ground that the bill alleged no cause of action within the jurisdiction of the court as a Federal court.
Briefly summarized, the bill alleged that in 1903 Lizzie Brown received from the United States a patent to certain described land in Oklahoma as her homestead allotment as a member of the Creek tribé of Indians; that she died in March, 1912, leaving surviving as her sole heirs her husband, Josiah Brown, and four minor children, all of whom were made defendants. It was alleged that Brown, the…
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