United States v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

This suit involves the title to 160 acres of land in Creek County, Oklahoma, which was allotted to Ullie Eagle, a full-blood member of the Creek Tribe of Indians, who died intestate on June 8, 1902. In the trial court fourteen separate groups of parties claimed title to sueh land, as or through alleged heirs of Ullie Eagle. The primary question presented is, who were her heirs at law.

I. A History of the Litigation.

On November 2,1923, Harriett Hosey and others, herein referred to as the Hosey Group, brought an action in the district court of Creek County, Oklahoma,…