Clinkenbeard v. United States

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Land, formerly owned by Martha Lena, an enrolled full-blood Seminole Indian, comprising * the “W% NEJ4 Section 26, Twp. 7N, Range 8E of the Indian Base and Meridian, containing 80 acres, more or less, in Hughes County, Oklahoma,” was purchased for her by the Department of the Interior upon a restricted form of deed. For purposes of this case, it is assumed that such restriction thereon against alienation expired on April 26, 1931.1

This action instituted by the United States Government acting by and under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, at…