Cook v. Childs
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Garvin County; R. McMillan, Judge. Actijon by Ellen Cook and another against F. H. Childs, guardian of Newton Nelson Childs, and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtHaedy, J.
This proceeding is prosecuted. to review a judgment of the district court of Garvin county denying dower to plaintiff in erro.r Ellen Cook, and ordering a sale of the lands involved herein, and the proceeds to be distributed among the defendants in error.
The facts disclosed by the record are that one Sim Nelson, a duly enrolled member of the Choctaw Tribe of Indians, departed this life on May 5, 1903, intestate and without issue, leaving surviving him Ellen Nelson, now Ellen Cook, plaintiff in error, his widow, and Cordelia Jacobs and Sibbie Childs, his sisters. At the time of his death the…
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