United States v. Drummond

VAUGHT, District Judge.

The United States brought this action against the defendant R. C. Drummond to set aside and cancel a certain sheriff’s deed in favor of said defendant affecting one hundred and sixty acres of land in Kay County, Oklahoma, and to quiet title thereto in the plaintiff.

Said land was conveyed to U-til-la, a duly enrolled Kaw Indian, by a homestead deed dated May 1, 1903, pursuant to Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, 32 Stat. 636. The deed was signed by the Head Chief of the Kansas or Kaw Tribe of Indians, approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and provided: “* * *…