Lawson v. Nye

Opinion by

JARMAN, C.

On June 30 1919, L. A. Nye, a guardian of Mollie Harjo, a full-blood Creek Indian, an incompetent, entered into a written contract of employment with Lewis C. Lawson, an attorney at law, the plaintiff in error, to recover for Mollie 1-Iarjo certain lands, located in Creek county, and oil royalties therefrom, which the Prairie Oil Company and others had taken possession of and appropriated. Mollie Harjo is the mother of Sam. Lucas, a duly enrolled Creek Indian, to whom the land above referred to was allotted; and Sam Lucas died, intestate and possessed of said land, on…