Ryburn v. Carney

This is an action brought. by the plaintiff, Reuben Carney, against the various defendants to recover possession of and to quiet his title to an undivided one-half of the surplus allotment of his deceased father, Gilbert Carney. His father was a full-blood Chickasaw Indian, and had been allotted a homestead and a surplus allotment. Upon his decease, the county court of Marshall county appointed an administrator for his estate and proceedings were had in such case by which the county court attempted to and did partition this surplus allotment, giving the plaintiff’s undivided one-half thereof…