Jonah v. Armstrong

COTTERAL, Circuit Judge.

The appellants, twenty-four in number, of whom several were minors represented by guardians, brought this suit on November 21, 1927, against various individuals and oil companies. They alleged that they were enrolled Seminole citizens, and maternal cousins and sole heirs of Isaae Adams, an enrolled Seminole Indian, and inherited various fractional interests in 120 acres of land'comprised in homestead and surplus allotments made in his name, after his death in 1900, as his distributive share of the Seminole Indian lands, evidenced by deeds of the nation, dated July 7,…