principal and the latter as his surety.
The circumstances under which the two bonds were executed were as follows: The United States brought a suit in the court below to cancel a Creek Indian allotment to Thomas Atkins as a member of that tribe who had died before that suit was instituted or shortly thereafter. Minnie Atkins was married to appellant in 1907. She claimed to be the mother of Thomas Atkins and his sole heir, and she had given an oil and gas lease to Charles Page. She, appellant and Charles Page were made defendants in that suit. One Nancy Atkins also claimed to be the mother of Thomas Atkins and his sole heir, and she was made a defendant. Others claiming an interest in the allotment wereare the executors of the estate of Charles Page, deceased, who died December 27, 1926, the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, the Sand Springs Home, a corporation to whom Page assigned the lease on September 22, 1917, E. C. Hanford, and two sons of Minnie Folk to each of whom she had bequeathed a one-sixth share of her interest in the royalties.
The executors of the Page estate, the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, and the Sand Springs Home joined in an answer. Their answer alleges, among other things, that appellant's petition for leave to file a bill of review for fraud stated that Charles Page, deceased, had obtained the signature of appellant to a purported bill of sale of all appellant's right, title and interest in