Parish v. Ned

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

Plaintiffs in error are sons, daughters and a daughter of another deceased daughter of Robert and Eliza Parish, full blood Choctaw Indians, now deceased. After these sons and daughters were born to Eliza she instituted a divorce action against Robert in the District Court of Pittsburg County, in 1925, but did not obtain the divorce until 1927. In the interim she gave birth to a child named Elsie Ned, whose putative father was another Choctaw full blood Indian named John Ned. When John Ned died he left a will devising his Indian allotment “to my daughter, Elsie Ned” as his…