The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations v. Myrtle Cox, the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations v. Joe Crain and Roxie Crain

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

The trial and appeal of these two cases were consolidated as involving the same question of law and fact. In each action the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations seek an adjudicated title to certain lands situated in Bryan County, Oklahoma, and accreted on the north bank of the Red River. The trial court found as a fact that appellees’ record title, founded upon grants from the appellant Indian Nation, described riparian lands bounded by the Red River and that the Indian Nations had no valid claim to the accreted lands. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

For many decades prior…