Jefferson v. Cook
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Okmulgee County; Ernest B. Hughes, Judge. Action by Grant N. Jefferson and others against Wm. J. Cook and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtTurner, J.
On May 7, 1915, Grant N. Jefferson and Mattie R. Wasson, for themselves, and Willie Noland Jefferson, by his guardian, John J. Jefferson, Jr., sued William J. Cook and Albert Z. English,, as administrators of the estate of F. B. Severs, deceased, and others, in the district court of Okmulgee county. The material facts admitted by the demurrer to the petition are that John J. Jefferson, Jr., and one Mary Alice Jefferson were, on June 9, 1905, husband and wife, and were duly enrolled freedmen of the Creek Nation. On that day Mary Alice 10— Jefferson died, leaving her surviving her husband, John…
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