Brown v. Bolen

This is an action in equity to cancel certain mineral deeds executed by plaintiff and to quiet title to the premises described therein.

Plaintiff alleges that she is a full-blood Chickasaw; that the land in question is a portion of the allotment of her deceased father and came to her by devise under his will. It is charged that the above deeds are void for failure of approval by the county court as required by the Acts of Congress of May 27, 1908, and April 12, 1926 (35 Stat. 312; 44 Stat. 239).

There is no issue here concerning the fact of approval. The appeal rests upon the question whether…