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SPERRY OIL CO. v. CHISHOLM

No. 164.

264 U.S. 488 (1924)

SPERRY OIL & GAS COMPANY ET AL. v. CHISHOLM ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 7, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Preston C. West, with whom Mr. Alvin Richards and Mr. A.A. Davidson were on the brief, for appellants and petitioners.

Mr. H.L. Underwood, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for the United States, by special leave of Court, as amici curiae.

Mr. J. Howard Langley, with whom Mr. Harve N. Langley, Mr. S.R. Lewis and Mr. O.S. Booth were on the brief, for appellees and respondents.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellees, Webster Chisholm, a half-blood Cherokee Indian, and his wife, brought this suit in a state court of Oklahoma to cancel a supplemental instrument modifying and extending an oil and gas lease previously executed by him upon his "homestead" and "surplus" allotments of tribal lands. It was removed to the Federal District Court. That court, upon final hearing, entered a decree adjudging this instrument...

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