Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1911

Choate v. Trapp Secy. of the St. Bd. of Eq.

Choate v. Trapp Secy. of the St. Bd. of Eq.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma · Decided March 21, 1911 · Dunn, Turner, Hayes, Williams, Kane
114 P. 709; 28 Okla. 517; 1911 OK 81; 1911 Okla. LEXIS 140

Choate v. Trapp Secy. of the St. Bd. of Eq.

Opinion of the Court

DUNN, J.

This ease presents error from the superior court of Logan county.

The action is joined in by some 9,000 parties plaintiff, members and allottees of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians, who are now resident citizens of the state of Oklahoma, each claiming to be a separate owner in fee simple of certain allotted lands held in severalty throughout a number of the different counties of the state. The issues presented are identical in all respects with those in the case of Gleason v. Wood, ante, 114 Pac. 703, and the opinion of the court in that case is adopted and promulgated as the opinion in this one.

*518 The judgment of the trial court sustaining a demurrer to the petition is accordingly affirmed.

TURNER, C. J., and HAYES and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur; KANE, J., dissents.

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