The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-29
SUIT TO CANCEL
!, GIANT OIL DEAL
| ABOUT TO START
Gushing Allotment Valued
at Millions Figure in
Legal Contest; Many
Are Named.

HOoNN1TEE. 10 cSpcel nl
eonveyances made by Fannie F'ulsom
or Alshcohney, Mollie Tiger and Baby
Cumpsey and other heirs of Susie and
lSina Crow, whose allotments in the
Gushing oil field are valued at s1O,-
O00,0 and 10000. 900 respectively,
are said to be in course of prepara.
ton by +. G. Motter, special assist
ant to the attorney general and will
probably be filed in the federah court
within the next week or SO
There are very many interesting
angles to the case, it is said, and al
ready something over 100000 have
been paid out by the federal receiver
10 attorneys and claimants to a share
in the allotments other than the rec.
ognized heirs.
Suit Filed Last Year.
On July 1. 1920, Attorney Lewis
Lawson, Of Holdenville, filed suit
lin the Creek county courts on behalf
Vt Fannie Fulsom, Mollie Tiger and
Baby Cumpsey to recover SIC. ZOO, 900
and $12,o0o,oe0 respectively for the
heirs Of Susie and Sina Crow. the de-
'fenaants named in the action being
Ira e. Cornelius, of Muskogee; John
Y. Cscy, Charles " Grimes. o. C. NJ.
Lancaster, George W. Garfield, Sam
uel Waller, ,.- Morris r.. Peteet, Thomas
Morgan. c. J Wrightsman, Walter l..
'Ransom. d. A. McDougsl, l.. o. Lytle,
FM. v. Pryor, C. B. Rock wood, j. s.
Cusden, f. W. Sinclair, Cosden Oil
Cumpany. Clara A. Ryan, G. M. Can
fxerpury, Ralph Hockstetter. as special
badninfstrator Of the estate Of David
ksunsberg, deceased Southwestern Pc
ttroleum Company, Iolly Jack, min
Tor, Joseph Bruner, as guardian OF
fLolly Jack, Lusanna Brink, Claude
Taylor. as guardian OF Lusanna Brink.
~. D. Berry, as receiver, II. U, Bart
,>ett. "A. A. Hammer, the Ohio cities
Gas Company, Inland Refining Com
ppany, and the Cosden Pipe line Com
!pAny.
Has Drawn. s. 100.
II Is alleged that Fannie Fulsom
or Alshcoheny, an aged woman now
living near Bristow. has up to date
received but $40 for her interest in
the Sina Grow allotment and $3.50 as
II Il'I Sidi = III lHt s1uni' tioN
Il although the two properties are valued
y at s22 ,000.0
NJ For some reason or other the suit
brought by Lawson in Creek county,
1 has never been tried but a number Of
guardians have been appointed for
Baby Cumpsey and Mollie Tiger. ma
ternal heirs To the Sina and Susie
Crow allotments with their mother,
Jamie Fulsom, the parental heirs be
Ing Loly Jack and Lusanna Brink.
Case Never Tried.
BY order OF court. the law firm of
McDougal and Lytle, Of Sapuipa, up
10 date have been paid over 5000 900
ky the receiver for alleged legal serv-
fees In all the receiver by order OF
the state supreme court has disbursed
II $500 .70s77. Ira T.. Cornelius, OF this
"A city, who paid 81 400 for conveyance
Of the interests of Mollie Tiger and
Baby Cunpsey, entered into October
t2S, 1919. has already received sl69,
lSoss5 from the estate. While the
rourt ordered the payment OF SS6,.
lESssS 10 Lusanna Brink, one OF The
tsaternal heirs 1t is said she has never
.beceived single penny the amount
'Iit is said. being held bv Attorneys
lRockwood and Pryor, Of Sapulpa.
Lusanna Brink disposed OF her in
lTerest in the properties to II. u. Bart
lett. of Sapulpa, for price said "a
have been 81 coo hut had she retained
kher interest as the grandmother NJ
Susie Crow and not encumbered her
kaDterest BY contracts with Attorneys
EAcDongla Lytle, Pryor, lockwood
ts,nd II. Z. Bartlett. she would have
received up until July 20, 1913
}Si4t 900 90.
Attack Clild's Parcntase.
b The Legitimacy OF Lolly Jack. one uf
tthe paternal heirs, was questioned
but the supreme court In the case OF
kLoily Jack vs.. Garfield. In February
Sls2l. held that Lolly was a legitimate
child OF Col. Jack and full half.
forother OF Susie Crow and therefore
,entitled to one.fourth OF the estate.
Colonel Jack. Creek Indian who
bsiied February. 1913. was prior to his
snarriase to Sina Grow. married to
II H.usanna Brink. by whom he had one
sson, Wallace Jack, who inherited one.
Fourth OF the Crow estate. but who
died In 1914. leaving one.fourth
knterest to his mother. Lusanna Brink,
tas the sole heir. II As said that some.
Zone bought Wallace Jacks interest in
ka $4,000 900 estate for $50 and with
.vhe $50 he bought bootleg whiskey aud
.as result Of drinking II he died.