OSAGE COUNTY MOTOR CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 8440.

33 F.2d 21 (1929)

OSAGE COUNTY MOTOR CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

May 8, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles B. Wilson, Jr., of Pawhuska, Okl. (H. R. Duncan, of Pawhuska, Okl., on the brief), for appellant.

M. E. Michaelson, of Bartlesville, Okl., amicus curiæ.

Louis N. Stivers, Asst. U. S. Atty., and John M. Goldesberry, U. S. Atty., both of Tulsa, Okl.

Before LEWIS and VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judges, and SYMES, District Judge.


SYMES, District Judge.

On February 4, 1926, the day following his becoming of age, Roosevelt Pappin, an Osage Indian of 9/64 Indian blood, and fully enrolled as such, executed five promissory notes aggregating $5,649.70, payable to the Osage Motor Company, defendant below, appellant here, and secured them by mortgages on his unrestricted allotted lands. No statutory certificate of competency had ever been issued to Pappin, and these contracts for debt, evidenced by...

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