Barnett v. Kunkel
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Oklahoma; Ralph E. Campbell, Judge. Suit by W. A. Kunkel and the Prairie Oil & Gas Company against Hannah Canard Barnett and Tucker K. Barnett, wherein defendants filed cross-bill. From a decree for plaintiffs, dismissing the cross-bill on the merits, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
AM.IDON, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity by Kunkel and the Prairie Oil & Gas Company against Hannah Barnett and others, to quiet title to a parcel of land which was formerly the allotment of Mahaley Watson, a full-blood Creek, who died while a minor. Hannah Barnett was her mother and sole heir. Defendants answered, and also filed a cross-bill. In these pleadings they denied the equity of the original bill, and asked as affirmative relief that plaintiff’s title be canceled and annulled, and that title be quieted and confirmed in Hannah Barnett. The trial court received the plaintiff’s…
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