Johnson v. Yellow Cab Transit Co.

The United States acquired by cession from France the lands' comprising the Fort Sill Military Reservation in Oklahoma, and since long prior to the admission of the state into the Union, the Reservation has been used continuously and exclusively for military purposes of the United States. By statute, the state ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over all territory owned by the United States and comprising the Reservation so long as the United States should own and hold the Reservation for military purposes, except that the state reserved the right to serve civil or criminal…