CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW NATIONS v. COX

Nos. 5702, 5703.

251 F.2d 733 (1958)

The CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW NATIONS, Appellant, v. Myrtle COX, Appellee. The CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW NATIONS, Appellant, v. Joe CRAIN and Roxie Crain, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

January 21, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. F. Semple, Tulsa, Okl. (Lynn Adams, Oklahoma City, Okl., was with him on the brief), for appellants.

Roy Paul, Durant, Okl. (Paul & Montgomery, Durant, Okl., were with him on the brief), for appellees.

Before BRATTON, Chief Judge, and PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit Judges.


LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

The trial and appeal of these two cases were consolidated as involving the same question of law and fact. In each action the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations seek an adjudicated title to certain lands situated in Bryan County, Oklahoma, and accreted on the north bank of the Red River. The trial court found as a fact that appellees' record title, founded upon grants from the appellant Indian Nation, described riparian lands bounded by the Red River...

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