Whitebird v. Eagle-Picher Lead Co.

KENNAMER, District Judge.

This ia an action to cancel mining leases covering the allotments of Eudora Whitebird, Mary Whitebird, and Joseph Whitebird, deceased Quapaw allottees, and for an accounting as to the ores taken from the allotments of lands by the defendants, operating mines upon the lands under the leases sought to be canceled, and for judgment for the value of the ores so taken, alleged to aggregate millions of dollars.

It was established that pursuant to the Act of Congress approved June 7, 1897 (30 Stat. 62), on the 30th day of July, 1912, Mary Whitebird and the heirs of Eudora…