Jackson v. Jackson

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

The oil-bearing land involved in this case was allotted to Raymond Jackson, a Seminole freedman bom about 1903. He left his home in Seminole county, Okl., late in October, 1921. His father, acting as his guardian, on January 2, 1923, executed an oil and gas leas'e' covering the premises to E. W. Whitney. It was subsequently assigned to The Carter Oil Company. Oil was discovered .in 1928. A search was made for. Raymond. It developed that a boy or young man had been killed on a railway near Blue Mountain, Ark. After investigation, the body was exhumed and accepted by his…