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RECTOR v. UNITED STATES

No. 7172.

20 F.2d 845 (1927)

RECTOR v. UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

May 28, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. W. Stoutz, of Tulsa, Okl. (W. E. Disney, of Muskogee, Okl., and John Wheeler, of Tulsa, Okl., on the brief, and Anthony P. Nugent, of Kansas City, Mo., of counsel), for appellant.

H. B. Martin, Sp. Counsel for the Creek Tribe or Nation of Indians, of Tulsa, Okl., and Eustace Smith, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States.

W. A. Ledbetter, of Oklahoma City, Okl. (Edward H. Chandler and William O. Beall, both of Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for appellee Mohawk Petroleum Co.

W. P. McGinnis, of Tulsa, Okl. (Y. P. Broome and J. C. Wilhoit, both of Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for appellee Tidal Oil Co.

Before STONE, KENYON, and BOOTH, Circuit Judges.

STONE, Circuit Judge.

This is the third of three appeals from the final decree (January 31, 1925) entered in one of the two socalled "river bed cases," this one, of which two cases, involved the title to the bed of the Cimarron river (a tributary of the Arkansas river) where it traversed that portion of the state of Oklahoma formerly belonging to the Creek Nation. The two other appeals and an appeal, involving the same question of title, as to the river bed lands...

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