In Re Martin's Estate

This case is here from a judgment of the district court of Osage county rendered after trial do novo on appeal from certain orders of the county court entered in the matter of final settlement and distribution of a decedent's estate. The case involves the question of the devolution of the real and personal property of a deceased Osage Indian of the half blood, and the rights of certain heirs to occupy his homestead allotment as a statutory homestead.

Cecil Martin, the aforesaid half-blood Indian, died intestate in Osage county in the year 1933, leaving surviving as his heirs at law a son,…