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UNITED STATES v. McGUGIN

No. 293.

31 F.Supp. 498 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. McGUGIN et al.

District Court, D. Kansas, Third Division.

February 3, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. S. Alexander, U. S. Atty., and R. T. McCluggage, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Topeka, Kans., and Charles E. Collett, of Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Howard T. Fleeson and Wayne Coulson, both of Wichita, Kan., and W. L. Cunningham and D. Arthur Walker, both of Arkansas City, Kan., for defendants.

HOPKINS, District Judge.

The action is one by the United States for the benefit of Jackson Barnett, a full blood Creek Indian and an enrolled member of the Creek Tribe, to recover $137,500 paid to the defendant Harold C. McGugin for services as attorney for the wife of Barnett. This sum was paid McGugin by Mrs. Barnett from a much larger sum received by her in a division of money, all of which was wrongfully withdrawn from funds credited to Barnett with the Treasurer...

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