PARKER v. RILEY

No. 254.

250 U.S. 66 (1919)

PARKER, AS SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES, ET AL. v. RILEY, A MINOR, BY STOCKTON, HER GUARDIAN, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 19, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Kearful for appellants.

Mr. William J. Horton and Mr. Ralph A. Smith for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity to settle conflicting claims to royalties collected and accruing under an oil and gas lease of lands allotted to a full-blood Creek Indian as a homestead. The allottee died intestate in November, 1908, leaving a husband and two minor children as her only heirs. One of the children was born before and the other after March 4, 1906. Under the...

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