Title: WILLIAMS v. FIRST NAT. BANK OF PAULS VALLEY
Citation: 1908 OK 23, 20 Okla. 274, 95 P. 45 7
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State: Oklahoma
Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Date: February 18, 1908

WILLIAMS v. FIRST NAT. BANK OF PAULS VALLEY Annotate this Case WILLIAMS v. FIRST NAT. BANK OF PAULS VALLEY 1908 OK 23 95 P. 457 20 Okla. 274 Case Number: 642 Ind Ter T Decided: 02/18/1908 Supreme Court of Oklahoma WILLIAMS v. FIRST NAT. BANK OF PAULS VALLEY Syllabus ¶0 1. INDIANS--Allotments--Compromise of Contest--Notes--Legality of Contract. A complaint which states that at the time of the execution of the note sued on a contest was pending before the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes between the payor and payee to determine which one of them had a right to take in allotment a certain tract of land, and that the consideration of said note was the abandoning of said contest by the payee, who was contestant, and permitting one of the payors, who was contestee, to file thereon and take the same as her allotment, which was done, and the same thereby became her separate property, does not state a contract void for illegality, and a demurrer thereto was properly overruled. 2. SAME--Sufficiency of Consideration. A complaint which states that at the time of the execution of the note sued on a contest was pending before the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes between the payor and payee to determine which one of them had a right to take in allotment a certain tract of land, and that the consideration of said note was the abandoning of said contest by the payee, who was contestant, and permitting one of the payors, who was contestee, to file thereon and take the same as her allotment, which was done, and the same thereby became her separate property, states the compromise of a disputed claim sufficient as a consideration to support an express promise to pay and a demurrer thereto upon the ground that it failed to state a sufficient consideration for the note sued on was property overruled. 3. SAME--Legality of Contract--Consideration. An answer which states that the "sole and only consideration" of the note sued on was the illegal sale of certain lands in the Chickasaw Nation by the payee to one of the payors, and the exhibit filed "as part thereof," and alleged to be a copy of said illegal conveyance, shows that the payee only intended thereby to "bargain, sell, and convey and relinquish all my right, title, or claim which I have in in any way in and to the possession of the lands and improvements situated upon" certain lands (describing them), and to "relinquish" unto said payor and her husband "all right which I have in and to the proceeds due or to become due from the sale of town property, or any interest in said town site located on the above-described premises," fails to state facts sufficient to show an illegal sale of lands or an illegal consideration for said note and a demurrer thereto was properly sustained. 4. BILLS AND