Willis Attocknie v. Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior

SETH, Circuit Judge.

The appellant is a Comanche Indian who seeks judicial relief from certain determinations by the Secretary of the Interior relative to the last will and testament of Albert Attocknie, a deceased Comanche Indian allottee.

The petitioner, in the administrative proceedings, contested the approval of the decedent’s will on the ground that the decedent was not competent, and was suffering at the time the will was executed from an insane delusion as to his relationship to the petitioner. The Examiner of Inheritance approved the will, and his findings and conclusions were approved…