ADAMS v. OSAGE TRIBE OF INDIANS

Nos. 573, 635-637.

59 F.2d 653 (1932)

ADAMS et al. v. OSAGE TRIBE OF INDIANS et al. ADAMS et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. MULLENDORE et al. v. OSAGE TRIBE OF INDIANS et al. YARBROUGH et al. v. OSAGE TRIBE OF INDIANS et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 27, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. E. Riddle, of Tulsa, Okl. and M. L. Holcombe, of Pawhuska, Okl. (Holcombe, Lohman & Barney, of Pawhuska, Okl., on the brief), for appellants.

Jno. M. Goldesberry, U. S. Dist. Atty., of Tulsa, Okl., T. J. Leahy, of Pawhuska, Okl. (A. E. Williams, Asst. U. S. Dist. Atty., of Tulsa, Okl., L. N. Stivers, Osage Tribal Atty., C. S. Macdonald, and F. W. Files, all of Pawhuska, Okl., and F. M. Goodwin, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States et al.

W. P. McGinnis, of Bartlesville, Okl., and J. H. Maxey, of Tulsa, Okl. (Fred M. Carter, of Bartlesville, Okl., J. H. Hill and John R. Ramsey, both of Tulsa, Okl., W. H. Francis, of Dallas, Tex., B. B. Blakeney, of Oklahoma City, Okl., B. W. Griffith and Sol H. Kauffman, both of Tulsa, Okl., Hayes McCoy and Warren T. Spies, both of Bartlesville, Okl., and Alvin Richards, Floyd A. Calvert, Edward H. Chandler, Summers Hardy, and Wm. O. Beall, all of Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for appellees oil companies.

Before LEWIS, COTTERAL, and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Three of these suits (Nos. 573, 636, and 637) were brought by individual owners of Osage surplus allotments selected pursuant to the provisions of the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat. 539). They are class suits and purport to speak for original allottees and their grantees, and assert ownership in themselves severally to the oil, gas, coal, and other minerals under their allotments on and after April 8, 1931. Hence they pray that their titles to...

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