Thompson v. Smith

This is an action brought by .lames Thompson and Albert Lock (or Jones) to cancel certain deeds and oil leases in so far as they affect their title to certain lands in Creek county. Okla., for possession of same and for an accounting for oil and gas removed therefrom. Hereinafter, for convenience, plaintiffs in error and defendants in error will be. referred to as plaintiffs and defendants, this being the relation in which they stood in the trial court.

It is admitted by all parties that the land in controversy was the allotment of one Ma-nie Steel, a full-blood Creek Indian; that certificate…