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UNITED STATES v. OKLAHOMA TAX COMMISSION

Nos. 2558, 2559, No. 2560.

131 F.2d 635 (1942)

UNITED STATES v. OKLAHOMA TAX COMMISSION (three cases).

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Granted February 15, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman MacDonald, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (Norman M. Littell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cleon A. Summers, U. S. Atty., of Muskogee, Okl., and John F. Cotter, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States.

A. Francis Porta, of El Reno, Okl., for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, HUXMAN, and MURRAH, Circuit Judges.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

These cases involve the power of the state of Oklahoma to impose an inheritance tax upon the restricted estates of deceased full-blood Indians.

Lucy Bemore was a full-blood Seminole Indian, enrolled opposite Seminole Roll No. 1563. She died intestate December 23, 1932. She left surviving, her husband, Lewis Bemore, a one-fourth blood Creek Indian, and a son, Thomas, an unenrolled full-blood Seminole Indian, who inherited her estate...

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