Myers v. Mathis
Court Of Appeals Of Indian Territory
Appeal from the United States Court for the Southern District. C. B. Kilgore, Judge. Action in ejectment. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals. This action was begun on the 15th day of April, 1896, in the United States court for the Southern district of the Indian Territory, at Purcell, for the recovery of a certain parcel or lot of land situated in the town of Purcell, Ind.
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Appeal from the United States Court for the Southern District. C. B. Kilgore, Judge. Action in ejectment. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals. This action was begun on the 15th day of April, 1896, in the United States court for the Southern district of the Indian Territory, at Purcell, for the recovery of a certain parcel or lot of land situated in the town of Purcell, Ind. T., alleging, in substance, that the appellants, who were citizens of the Chickasaw Nation, were in 1897, seised of, and in the actual undisturbed possession and quiet occupancy of, the premises, claiming the title…
1Opinion of the CourtSpringer, C. J.
The direction of the trial judge to the jury to return a verdict for the defendants in this case was made, not on account of the evidence or want of evi*6dence submitted on the trial, but solely on account of the legal questions involved. Hence it will not be necessary for the court to consider the testimony set forth in the record to determine whether the case should have been submitted to the jury. The legal questions of counsel in the case are as follows: First, that the alleged sale of the improvements in question by one R. J. Love to appellants, not having been in writing, was void under…
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