Creek Indians Nat. Council v. Sinclair Prairie Oil Co.

RICE, District Judge.

This suit was filed originally in the District Court of Creek County, State of Oklahoma by appellants1 against Sinclair Prairie Oil Company,2 a non-resident corporation, four other non-resident corporations which were never served with process, and ninety-eight individual defendants, forty-eight of whom were residents of Oklahoma. The record does not disclose that any one of the individual defendants was ever served with process. After removal of the cause to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, the Creek Indians National Council was, by…