United States v. Mott

POLLOCK, District Judge.

By this suit the government, as guardian of a full-blood Creek incompetent Indian, one Jackson Barnett, seeks the recovery of $15,000 of government bonds heretofore held by the honorable Secretary of the Interior in trust for said Barnett under the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of the Act of Congress May 27, 1908 (35 Stat. 312), said bonds having been *341by tbe Secretary purchased, for the account of said incompetent Indian Barnett, out of accumulated royalties coming into his hands from oil and gas leases made by the Indian on his restricted allotment in the Creek…