Seminole Nation v. White

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

This suit involves the title to a strip of land under the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company’s right-of-way in Seminole County, Oklahoma, formerly Seminole Indian Nation. The question is whether it belongs to the Seminole Tribe, which brought this suit in its quasi sovereign capacity to quiet its title, or to the Seminole Indian allottee of the adjoining and adjacent lands, who has since executed an oil and gas lease covering part of the allotment, to the appellee, Fordee Rhoades Oil Company. The trial court held for the Indian allottee, and the Tribe has…