JONES v. PRAIRIE OIL CO.

No. 109.

273 U.S. 195 (1927)

JONES ET AL., TRUSTEES, v. PRAIRIE OIL AND GAS COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 24, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. J. Alston Atkins and Carter Walker Wesley for the appellants.

Mr. Joseph L. Hull, with whom Messrs. T.J. Flannelly, Paul B. Mason, and Nathan A. Gibson were on the brief, for the appellee.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a bill in equity seeking the cancellation of oil and gas leases to, or held by, the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, and for an account. The fundamental facts are as follows. Leonard D. Ingram was a member of the Muskogee (Creek) Nation and as such on July 1, 1907, received patents of homestead and other land, the homestead patent expressing the conditions provided...

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