Oatman v. Hampton

John and Mary Oatman, Nez Perce Indians, husband and wife, otherwise known as Zeloon Was and Pe-Yah-Na-Halt-Pa-Wit, residing upon the reservation in Idaho county, complained that on November 9, 1921, they were the patent owners of two allotments aggregating 160 acres of land in said county, of the value of $12,000;. that on or about said date the defendant, Luther Hampton, agreed to make them a $3,000 five year six per cent loan, taking a mortgage on said land as security; that on November 9, 1921, said defendant brought to their residence a certain paper writing which he declared to he a…