St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Skelton
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Brror from District Court, Okmulgee County; Wade S. Stanfield, Judge. Action by the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company against S. L. Skelton. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
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HARRISON, C.
This was a suit in ejectment by the Frisco Railroad Company against L. S. Skelton for possession of certain tracts or lots of land situated in an addition to the town of Okmulgee, title to which the railroad claimed under an instrument of conveyance executed by Samuel J. Haynes and wife, Sarah Haynes, full-blood Creeks, on May 12, 1902. The undisputed facts are that on the above date Haynes and wife executed an instrument of conveyance to certain tracts or strips of land to the Shawnee, Oklahoma & Missouri Coal & Railway Company. Such conveyance is alleged to have been…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. Ft. Smith & W. R.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1912
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