Jones v. Hilderbrand

REID, C.

On January 17, 1927, O. D. Jones filed this suit against H. R. Hilder-brand and B. F. Hilderbrand to recover possession of 100 acres of land in Stephens county, a part of the surplus allotment of Loring Hotinlubbee, a full-blood member of the Choctaw Trib'e of Indians, who will be hereinafter referred to as the allottee. The plaintiff claimed his right of possession under an agricultural leas'e of the land executed and delivered to him by the allottee on December 3, 1926, which lease began of that date and ran for a term of five years. The defendants admitted the ownership of the land…