Legal Opinion
Self v. Prairie Oil & Gas Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 2, 1927No. 7304PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN B. SANBORN, District Judge.
The appellant was the plaintiff in the court below, and the appellee was the defendant. The suit was in equity. The plaintiff in his bill, aside from the jurisdictional facts, alleges that he is a Creek Indian, shown by the rolls to have been seven years of age on August 25, 1899; that there was allotted to him, of the lands of the Creek Nation, the south half of the northeast quarter and the north half of the southeast quarter of section 21, township 17 north, range 12 east; that ever since the allotment of these lands to him he has been in the open,…
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