Gilcrease v. McCullough
Supreme Court of the United States
certiorari to the supreme court of the state of OKLAHOMA.’ The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the court.
Thomas Gilcrease, a Creek Indian of one-eighth blood, received, -under date of December 15, 1902, an allotment of surplus land under Act of Congress, March 1, 1901, c. 676, 31 Stat. 861, as amended by Act of June 30, 1902, c. 1323, 32 Stat. 500. On February 8, 1911, his twenty-first birthday, he executed to McCullough and Martin an oil and gas lease thereof. Later he brought suit in a state court of Oklahoma to set it aside, insisting that, under the applicable enrollment record of Creek citizenship, he must be assumed to have been under…
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