Morris v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

HOBBY, Judge.

The plaintiff in the court below, who is the appellant here, instituted this action for the recovery of damages for injuries *19to certain real property in the Choctaw Nation of the Indian Territory, which he alleged was caused by defendant’s negligence in permitting fire to be communicated thereto. Plaintiff’s rights in the property grow out of the fact that he had acquired by marriage with an Indian woman membership in the said Choctaw tribe. Plaintiff resided in said Nation, and defendant is a Missouri corporation, having an office and agent in the county where this suit was…