Goodwin v. Thomas

SETH, Circuit Judge.

The appellant commenced this action as a suit to quiet title to several Oklahoma farm tracts. Jurisdiction is based upon diversity of citizenship. The issue is the proper construction to be given to certain devises in the will of the decedent, Dr. Edward B. Miller, as decreed in probate proceedings by the County Court of Grant County, Oklahoma. In these proceedings, the probate court found that the property of the decedent should pass in accordance with his will, and entered its “Decree of Final Settlement and Distribution,” portions of which are here in question.

The…