McCURDY v. UNITED STATES

No. 685.

246 U.S. 263 (1918)

McCURDY, COUNTY TREASURER OF OSAGE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 4, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Preston A. Shinn for appellants.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Kearful for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

The Osage Tribe of Indians consisted in 1906 of two thousand persons. Their reservation, located in Oklahoma Territory between the Arkansas River and the Kansas state line, contained about a million and a half acres of fertile well-watered prairie land and of heavily timbered hill lands, largely underlaid with petroleum, natural gas, coal and other minerals. At that...

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