Morton v. Thomason

REID, C.

The plaintiff’s petition was in two. counts, the first one alleging: That one Washie Riley, an incompetent, through his guardian, M. M. Thomason, claimed an interest as an heir in the allotted lands of three certain full-blood Creek Indians; that the title to these lands was involved in numerous suits in Creek, Seminole, and Hughes counties, Okla., in which the guardian was a party at interest either as plaintiff or defendant; that in undertaking to establish said incompetent’s rights in said allotments it was necessary to spend certain sums of money in interviewing witnesses,…