Beams v. Step

Opinion by

FOSTER, C.

The plaintiff In error, Mary Beams, as plaintiff, instituted her action in the district court of Adair county against the defendants in error, Polly Step, Ohulio Step, Lizzie Daugherty, and Jen- nie Teehee, as defendants, for the partition of a certain tract of land located in Adair county, in which the plaintiff in error was alleged to he the owner of a one-halE undivided interest. The parties will he hereinafter designated as they appeared in the trial court.

The land in controversy was the original allotment of Ellis Step, a Cherokee Indian, enrolled opposite Cherokee…