Choctaw Lumber Co. v. Coleman
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, McCurtain County; Summers Hardy, Judge. Action by the Choctaw Lumber Company against T. N. Coleman and another. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error,
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
GALBRAITH, C.
This action involves the allotment' of John Taylor, a deceased full-blood Choctaw Indian. The plaintiff in error, as plaintiff in the court below, asserted title under duly executed and approved deeds of conveyance from the heirs of the allottee, also full-bloods, while the defendant Coleman claimed title through a sheriff’s deed, which had been issued to him through an execution sale by virtue of a judgment in his favor against the allottee and his heirs, prior to the al-lottee’s death, rendered in an action for damages for breach of contract. The trial court sustained…
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