Choctaw, O. G. R. Co. v. Sittel
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the United States Court for the Central District oj the Indian Territory; Wm. H. H. Clayton, Judge. Action by Edwin D. Sittel and others against Allen Wright, the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad Company, and another for an accounting. Judgment for complainants as against defendant railroad company and dismissing the case as to the other defendants, and both parties bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtKaNE, J.
This was a suit for an accounting commenced in the United States Court for the Central District of the Indian Territory, wherein Edwin D. Sittel and Fritz Sittel were plaintiffs, and Allen Wright, J. W. McLoud, as trustee, and Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad Company, a corporation, were defendants. The plaintiffs in their complaint stated their cause of action, in substance, as follows:
That Edwin D. Sittel is a white man, who, at the time of the commencement of this suit, had resided within the- Choctaw Nation during a period of 25 years, and that Fritz Sittel is a son of the aforesaid…
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