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TIGER v. TWIN STATE OIL CO.

No. 312.

48 F.2d 509 (1931)

TIGER et al. v. TWIN STATE OIL CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 16, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles B. Rogers, of Tulsa, Okl. (E. C. McMichael, of Sapulpa, Okl., on the brief), for appellants.

John M. Goldesberry, U. S. Atty., of Tulsa, Okl., for appellee the United States.

William J. Gregg, of Tulsa, Okl. (G. Earl Shaffer and R. E. Berger, both of Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for other appellees.

Before COTTERAL, PHILLIPS, and McDERMOTT, Circuit Judges.

McDERMOTT, Circuit Judge.

The appellants, plaintiffs below, are the children of a full-blood Creek Indian whose English name was John Tiger. Plaintiffs demand possession of certain land allotted by the Dawes Commission to one Do-saw-cher, a full-blood Creek, and for an accounting for rents and profits. The defendants in possession deny plaintiffs' claim; they assert that Do-saw-cher was the Indian name of John Tiger; that John Tiger had been allotted other land, enjoyed...

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