Bailey v. Colombe

This action is brought to have the defendants Colombe declared trustees of certain lands in Charles Mix county for the 'benefit of plaintiff. The facts so far as material are: Christopher Colombe, husband of Emma Colombe, about March, 1919, entered into an oral agreement with plaintiff by which defendant C. Colombe agreed, for the payment to him of a reasonable commission, to act as plaintiff’s agent in the purchase of lands involved as soon as a patent in fee was received at the Indian agency at Greenwood. This land had been allotted to one Daniel Charging Whirlwind, a Yankton Sioux Indian.…