United States v. Eastern Coal & Mining Co.

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

This suit is based on a coal mining lease made and executed under the provisions of section 29 of the Act of June 28, 1898 (30 Stat. 495, 505), on segregated lands of the Choctaw Tribe of Indians. The lease bears date September 26, 1899. It contains substantially the same provisions that lease No. 6 contained, which we have just considered in our opinion entitled United States of America v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company, et al., 66 F.(2d) 919, to which we refer. The two causes were consolidated for trial. This lease does not contain expressly the substance of the…