ANCHOR OIL CO. v. GRAY

No. 188.

256 U.S. 519 (1921)

ANCHOR OIL COMPANY v. GRAY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1921.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Devereux, for appellant, submitted.

Mr. Preston C. West, with whom Mr. A.A. Davidson was on the brief, for appellees.

Mr. Geo. S. Ramsey, Mr. Malcolm E. Rosser, Mr. Villard Martin, Mr. James A. Veasey, Mr. John M. Chick, Mr. G. Earl Shaffer, Mr. James C. Denton and Mr. Edgar A. deMeules, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curiae.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit in equity instituted by appellant against appellees in a state court of Oklahoma, involving the ownership of a leasehold estate for oil and gas mining purposes in a Creek Indian allotment containing 80 acres, situate in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. Upon petition of appellees it was removed to the United States District Court upon the ground that it arose under the Constitution and laws of the United...

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