Testerman v. Burt

LEACH, C.

This suit with its many issues grew out of certain placer mining claims attempted to be made about the year 1918, in the south half of the bed of Red River, in Tillman county, Okla., on the theory that the land belonged to the federal government, while other locators claimed superior rights under state claims of ownership, the states of Texas and Oklahoma each asserting exclusive ownership and jurisdiction over the territory. The Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of State of Oklahoma v. State of Texas, in opinions reported in 256 U. S. 70, 65 L. Ed. 831, and 258 U. S.…