Salter v. McKinley

TEEHEE, C.

On June 9, 1926, A. B. McKinley brought suit in ejectment against HJ. Salter, Fannie Salter, Olovie Kirby, and J. A. Shipman for the possession of certain, real property, and for damages for the wrongful detention thereof.

The land in controversy was the surplus-allotment of a full-blood Choctaw Indian, who, it was stipulated by the parties, was-born on May 19, 1905, and so shown by the enrollment records of the allotte'e. Plaintiff predicated his right to the possession of the-property on a five-year agricultural lease-executed by the allottee on May 18, 1926, on which date,…