United States v. Hale

COTTERAL, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by the United States, in behalf of Pearl Bigheart, an Osage Indian ward, against Myrtie M. Hale, to quiet the title to a quarter section of land in Osage county, Okl. The District Court [39 F.(2d) 188] sustained the title of each to a half interest in the land, but the entire interest was awarded to the defendant in a final decree, from which the United States appeals.- We first review the material facts to which the parties agreed at the trial.

The land was allotted to Um-pah-to-kah, a full-blood Osage Indian, pursuant to the Allotment Act of June…