Hawkins v. Klein

Opinion by

SHACKELFORD, C.

The first contention of the plaintiffs in error is that the mining lease executed by Charles Dawes and his wife, Minnie Ball Dawes, under which lease the plaintiff. Elmer E. Klein, claims, is invalid and void because the property covered by the lease was a part of the Indian allotment of Minnie Ball Dawes, a restricted Quapaw Indian woman, and her restrictions had not been removed, nor the lease authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Interior; and that without such action by the Secretary of the Interior, she ("Minnie Ball Dawes) was not legally authorized to…