Stevens v. Elliott
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Appeal from District Court, Wagoner County; John H. King, Judge. Suit in equity by Flattie Elliott, a Creek freedman, to recover certain lands conveyed while a minor to Perry R. Vaughn and by him to Williston J. Stevens. Robert F. Blair, a purchaser from plaintiff, after her majority, of a portion of the same tract, intervened. Decree for plaintiff.
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Appeal from District Court, Wagoner County; John H. King, Judge. Suit in equity by Flattie Elliott, a Creek freedman, to recover certain lands conveyed while a minor to Perry R. Vaughn and by him to Williston J. Stevens. Robert F. Blair, a purchaser from plaintiff, after her majority, of a portion of the same tract, intervened. Decree for plaintiff. On the 2d day of May, 1905, defendant in error, Hattie Elliott, a Creek freedman, commenced in the United States Court for the Indian Territory, at Wagoner, a suit against defendants, Williston J. Stevens and Perry R. Vaughn, seeking the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
SHARP, C.
(after stating the facts as above). After a careful examination of the entire record, we.are of the opinion that the trial court committed no error in finding that Hattie Elliott was -on March 9, 1905, under the age of 18 years, and that the testimony amply sustains the finding. The testimony fully establishes that Plattie Elliott was between 15 and’ 16 years of age when her deed of conveyance was made.
Plaintiff in error contends that the testimony of plaintiff as to her age, because she did not know the facts of her own personal knowledge, was of no value. This is not the…
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