Parker v. Riley
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Oklahoma; Ralph E. Campbell, Judge. Suit by Tootie Riley, a minor, by U. C. Stockton, her guardian, and others, against Gabe E- Parker, as Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes, successor of Dana PI. Kelsey, as United States Indian Superintendent, Union Agency, and another. From the decree (218 Fed. 391), defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
On October 3, 1912, Tootie Riley, a minor, by her guardian, Julia Willingham, a minor, by her guardian, and Doc Willingham, the sole heirs at law of Emma Derrisaw Willingham, who before her marriage to Doc Willingham was Emma Derrisaw, a full-blood Creek Indian, made an oil and g'as mining lease of 40 acres of land in Creek county, Okl., which had been allotted to Emma Derrisaw as her homestead, and provided in the lease that the royalties payable by the lessee should be paid, and they have been paid, to the United States Indian superintendent, Union agency, and to his…
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