Logos Oil Company Vs. Department Of The Interior, 1947-08-04 - 1981-12-03

The text describes a situation in which a man named Charles Jolley purchased oil and gas rights from a family called the fishers, only to later learn that some members of the fisher family were half-blood creek Indians and that the lease was therefore null and void. A hearing was held in the Okfuskee county court, at which Mr. Jolley's was not the high bid. In a letter addressed to the department of the interior, Mr. Jolley objected to the appearance by a trial attorney at the hearing and to the provisions of the act of august 4, 1947 requiring approval of leases by half-blood Indians by an oklahoma county court. The department of the interior responded that the trial attorneys appearance was fully authorized by applicable federal law and that the 1947 act was not "archaic," as Mr. Jolley had characterized it.