Barnett v. Kunkel
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed a decree of the District Court for the plaintiff Kunkel, and the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, made defendant by a cross bill, and against the defendants and cross plaintiffs, Barnett et al., in a suit brought by Kunkel to quiet title to' a piece of land in Oklahoma. Certiorari was refused. 260 U. S. 738. A petition for rehearing was denied.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
W. A. Kunkel, a citizen of Indiana, began this suit in the United States District Court’for the Eastern District of Oklahoma to quiet title to 160 acres of land in that district, and made defendants Hannah C. Barnett, her husband, Tucker K. Barnett, and others, all citizens of Oklahoma residing in the district. In his amended bill the complainant averred that he deraigned his title from one Mehaley Watson, a Creek citizen, to whom was allotted the land in question, that a patent was issued in her name signed by the principal chief of the Creek Nation and approved by the Secretary of the…
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