United States v. Woods
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Oklahoma; Ralph E. Campbell, Judge. Suit by the United States against Helen F. Woods, in which the defendant filed a cross-bill asking that other persons be made parties to the suit and required to litigate their claims to the land in controversy.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Oklahoma; Ralph E. Campbell, Judge. Suit by the United States against Helen F. Woods, in which the defendant filed a cross-bill asking that other persons be made parties to the suit and required to litigate their claims to the land in controversy. Decree dismissing the bill and the cross-bill, and plaintiff appeals from the dismissal of its bill, and defendant appeals from dismissal of her cross-bill.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
The United States brought this suit on the authority of Act-May 27,1908, c. 199, 35 Stat. 312, as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Heckman v. United *317States, 224 U. S. 413, 443, 32 Sup. Ct. 424, 56 L. Ed. 820, to cancel three deeds made by one John C. Leeds, conveying to defendant Helen F. Woods three separate tracts of land, which he had acquired from the heirs of deceased full-blood Creek Indians, to whom homestead allotments of these tracts had been made. The charge in the bill of complaint was that they were made in violation of the…
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