CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW NATIONS v. BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS

Civ. No. 5556.

239 F.Supp. 650 (1965)

The CHOCTAW AND the CHICKASAW NATIONS, Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LOVE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, and Texaco Inc., a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Oklahoma.

March 23, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. F. Semple, Tulsa, Okl., for Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.

Kenneth D. Bacon, County Atty., Love County, Marietta, Okl., for Board of County Com'rs.

J. Frederick Lawson, and Kelsey Hutchinson, Tulsa, Okl., for Texaco, Inc.


DAUGHERTY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, the Choctaw and the Chickasaw Nations, bring this action to quiet title as against the Board of County Commissioners of Love County, Oklahoma, insofar as mineral rights are concerned in a seven-acre tract of land.

It is stipulated that the Board acquired the tract by deed of patent issued by the Choctaw and the Chickasaw Nations on April 24, 1915, by an instrument entitled "Cemetery Patent 23" and reciting that it had...

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