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Western History Collections

 

John Frank McMurray Collection

 

 

Box 1   J.F. McMurray vs. Choctaw and Chickasaws in U.S. Court of Claims.  Case #33996.

Folder:

 

1.                  Plaintiff's petition

 

2.                  Plaintiff's amended petition and exhibits A, B, and C

 

3.                  Evidence for claimant (incomplete)

 

4.                  Plaintiff's trial brief on argument of tentative findings

 

5.                  evidence for defendants, Volume I

 

6.                  evidence for defendants, Volume II

 

7.                  Defendants' statement of the case, objections to findings of fact requested by the plaintiff, request for finding of fact, and brief.

 

8.                  Plaintiff's objections to "tentative findings of fact," requested findings of fact and argument.

 

 

Box 2   All items involve J.F. McMurray vs. Choctaws and Chickasaws in U.S. Court of Claims.  Case #33996.

Folder:

 

1.                  Plaintiff's objections to "tentative findings of fact," requested findings of fact and argument.

 

2.                  Plaintiff's objections to tentative findings.

 

3.                  Defendant's objections to tentative findings and reply to plaintiff's objections to tentative findings.

 

4.                  Plaintiff's objections to defendant's objections to plaintiff's findings, objections to defendants' findings and reply brief.

 

5.                  Motion for leave to file "motion for new trial on ground of newly discovered evidence."

 

6.                  Plaintiff's motion for new trial and brief.

 

7.                  Defendants'  Motion for new trial, and for amendments of findings of fact, and response to plaintiff's motion for new trial and brief.

 

8.                  Brief in support of petition for writ of certiorari to review the record certified by the Court of Claims; and for writ of certiorari for diminution of the record.

 

9.                  Bill for final settlement of claims against the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.

 

10.              Original typed copies of some of the motions, briefs, etc. filed in the McMurray vs. Choctaws and Chickasaws case. 

 

11.              Printed copies of the above case.

 

12.              Printed copies of the above case.

 

13.              Printed copies of the above case.

 

14.              Correspondence relative to the case.

 

15.              Statement of J.F. McMurray in support of Bill for Final Settlement of Claims against the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.

 

16.              Indian Tax Decision, Ardmore Statesman, May 25, 1912.