Pigeon v. Buck
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO-THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP OKLAHOMA. The facts, which are similar to those involved in the preceding case, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds
The opinion in McDougal v. McKay, announced today, ante, p. 372, considers and decides the questions involved in these writs of error and necessitates affirmation of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma in both causes.
In No. 199, Pigeon v. Buck, all parties were enrolled full-blooded Creek Indians. The allottee, Lowiney Harjo, having received a patent to certain land, died July 12, 1905, intestate, without descendants, leaving father, mother, brothers, sister and her husband. Thereafter the father and mother — John and Mate Pigeon — claiming the land must be treated as an ancestral…
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