Legal Opinion
Brown v. Stufflebean
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 16, 1951No. 4128PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURRAH, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of the Eastern District of Oklahoma, sustaining the challenged validity of certain deeds of conveyance of inherited Indian land by the Indian heirs of a full-blood Choctaw Indian.
The full-blood heirs seek to invalidate and set aside their conveyances of their respective interests in the inherited land on the grounds, inter alia, that they were not executed in compliance with Section 8 of the Act of January 27, 1933, 47 Stat. 777, which provides in material part that “no conveyance of any interest in land of any…
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