Elliott v. Merriman
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court,. Seminole County; Tom D. McKeown, Judge. Action by J. L. Elliott against C. L. Merriman and another. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtKane, C. J.
This was a suit to quiet title to certain lands, commenced by the plaintiff in error herein, plaintiff below, against the defendants in error herein, defendants below. Upon the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the trial court sustained a demurrer thereto, and entered judgment in favor of the defendants, to reverse which this proceeding in error was commenced.
The subject of the suit is the allotted lands of Rebecca Street Davis, a Seminole freedman, and all parties, plaintiff and defendant, deraign their alleged title from her. At the trial there were nine deeds introduced in evidence. The…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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