Hyde v. Ishmael

Opinion by

GALBRAITH, C.

This was an action in ejectment to recover the possession of the land described in the petition. The petition was in the statutory form and the answer a general denial. A jury was waived and the cause was tried to the court. The court made the following findings of fact:

“That Dean Ishmael was a Seminole freedman, duly enrolled as a member of the Seminole Tribe or Nation of Indians, and as such was allotted the land in controversy as a portion of his allotment of the tribal lands, and the same being designated by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes as a…