Laurel Oil & Gas Co. v. Morrison
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS EÓR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This case on the merits is reported in sub nomine Morrison v. Burnette, 154 Fed.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS EÓR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This case on the merits is reported in sub nomine Morrison v. Burnette, 154 Fed. Rep. 617. The able opinion of Sanborn, J., speaking for the Circuit Court, of Appeals, is preceded by the following statement, which correctly sets forth the facts: “Pursuant to an order of the United States Court in the Western District of Indian Territory, which has the jurisdiction of a Probate Court', a lease of 160 acres of mineral land which had been allotted to Edith Durant, a minor Indian, was advertised for sale on sealed bids by Monday…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. ChieeJustice Fuller,
after making the foregoing.statement, delivered the opinion of the court.. By the act of Congress, approved March 1, 1889, c. 333, 25 Stat. 783, there was established a United States court for the Indian Territory. The act conferred no jurisdiction over felonies, but by the fifth suction exclusive original jurisdiction was conferred over all offenses against the laws of the United States committed within the Indian Territory, not punishable by death or by imprisonment at hard labor. Jurisdiction was conferred in all civil cases between citizens of the United States who…
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