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LAUREL OIL CO. v. MORRISON

No. 198.

212 U.S. 291 (1909)

LAUREL OIL AND GAS COMPANY v. MORRISON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 23, 1909.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George A. Murphey, with whom Mr. William T. Hutchings and Mr. Wm. P.Z. German were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. William J. Breene and Mr. John J. Shea, with whom Mr. Edmond C. Breene was on the brief, for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE 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 section exclusive original jurisdiction was conferred over all offenses against the laws of the United States committed within the Indian Territory, not punishable...

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