American Nat. Bank v. American Baptist Home Mission Soc.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, American Baptist Home Mission Society, a New York corporation, owns and operates Bacone College and Murrow Indian Orphans’ Home near Muskogee, Oklahoma. The Orphans’ Home is a charitable institution for orphan Indian children and Bacone College is also primarily a school for Indian students, many of whom cannot pay for an education. A few white students attend, but the great majority of the student body is Indian and over one-half pays no tuition. Since 1918 the President of the College and Superintendent of the Orphans’ Home has been Dr.…