Baldridge v. Caulk

Opinion by

LYONS, 0.

Claude C. Clingan, an enrolled Cherokee citizen of five-sixteenths blood, died in the year 190S, entitled to an allotment. Selection was made on his behalf, and allotment was made on January 13, 1905. As the case appears here, he was the son of a father and mother both of whom had Indian blood, and appeared on the approved roll of Cherokee Indian citizens by blood. The allottee left surviving him a father, a maternal grandfather, and other heirs on the maternal side, and a widow. Dower was duly assigned and set aside to the widow by the order of the United States Court for…