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SEMINOLE NATION v. WHITE

No. 4986.

224 F.2d 173 (1955)

The SEMINOLE NATION, Appellant, v. Nelly WHITE, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company and Fordee Rhoades Oil Company and United States of America, Intervener, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

May 25, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. F. Semple, Tulsa, Okl., for appellant.

Edmund B. Clark, Washington, D. C. (Perry W. Morton, Washington, D. C., Frank D. McSherry, Muskogee, Okl., and Roger P. Marquis, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for United States, appellee.

Before HUXMAN, MURRAH and PICKETT, Circuit Judges.

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

This suit involves the title to a strip of land under the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company's right-of-way in Seminole County, Oklahoma, formerly Seminole Indian Nation. The question is whether it belongs to the Seminole Tribe, which brought this suit in its quasi sovereign capacity to quiet its title, or to the Seminole Indian allottee of the adjoining and adjacent lands, who has since executed an oil and gas lease covering...

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