Harris v. Gale
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Oklahoma
In Equity. Bill by John Harris, guardian, against G. W. Gale.
1Opinion of the Court
CAMPBELL, District Judge.
The question for consideration arises upon defendant’s demurrer to complainant’s bill. By the bill it is sought to have canceled, as a cloud upon the title to certain lands of the complainant’s minor ward, a deed made by complainant as guardian of such ward, because it was not approved by the Secretary of the Interior. The ward is a full-blood Choctaw Indian. The land was the allotment of her ancestor, also a full-blood Choctaw Indian, who died in March, 1905, whereupon the ward inherited the land. Subsequent to the passage of the act of Congress approved May 27, 1908…
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