Parker v. Riley
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
delivered the opinion of the court..
This is a bill in equity to settle conflicting claims to royalties collected and accruing under an oil and gas lease of lands allotted to a full-blood Creek Indian as a homestead. The allottee died intestate in November, 1908, leaving a husband and two minor children as her only heirs. One of the children was born before and the other after March 4, 1906. Under the applicable law of descent each heir took an undivided one-third interest in the lands, subject to the estate specially given to the child born after March 4, 1906, by § 9 of the Act of May 27,…
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