Opinion

Bilby v. Brown

  • 34 Okla. 738
  • 126 P. 1024
  • 1912 OK 535
  • 1912 Okla. LEXIS 471
Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Filed
Aug 20, 1912
Status
Published
Author
Ames
On the bench
Ames
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 57.0%

The opinion

Opinion by

AMES, C.

Alice Shields in her lifetime was an enrolled freedman citizen of the Creek Nation. Prior to her enrollment she was legally married to John Shields, a citizen of the United States and a noncitizen of the Creek Nation. She had two children by a former husband, Beulah Brown (now Beulah Brown Foster) and Ada Brown. After her enrollment she selected the land involved as her allotment, and on the 1st day of August, 1901, died, leaving her husband and these two children by a former marriage as her heirs. Both of these children were enrolled freedman Creek citizens. On April 23, 1904, a

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deed was executed by the Principal Chief of the Creek Nation to the heirs of Alice Shields, and delivered on the 8th day of February, 1905. In March, 1907, Beulah Brown Foster and her husband conveyed by warranty deed an undivided one-half interest in the land to John R. Thomas and Grant Foreman, who subsequently conveyed this interest to John S. Bilby. The Iowa Land & Trust Company, by conveyance from John Shields, became the owner of an undivided one-third interest in the land. The court below held that the husband and two children of Alice Shields inherited the land, each taking a one-third interest. This judgment of the trial court was correct under the following decisions of this court:

De Graffenreid v. Iowa Land & Trust Co.,

20 Okla. 687 , 95 Pac. 624 ;

Sanders v.

Sanders, 28 Okla. 59 , 117 Pac. 338 ;

Hooks v.

Kennard, 28 Okla. 457 , 114 Pac. 744 ;

Barnett v. Way,

29 Okla. 780 , 119 Pac. 418 ;

Divine v. Harmon,

30 Okla. 820 , 121 Pac. 219 ;

Morley v. Fewel,

32 Okla. 452 , 122 Pac. 700 .

The judgment of the trial court should be affirmed.

By the Court: It is so ordered.

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