Roe v. Anco Oil Co.

This case involves the allotment of Elijah Roe, a freedman citi zen of the Creek Nation, who died in July, 1911, intestate, unmarried, and without issue, leaving his father, Marshal] Roe, enrolled as a Seminole freedman, brothers and sisters enrolled as Creek freedmen, and a niece, a child of a sister of the deceased. The defendants in the case claimed an interest in the land under conveyances from the father of the deceased allottee. It is contended by the plaintiff in error that the father did not inherit the land allotted by the deceased allottee. Under the rule announced by this court in…