Joines v. Patterson

This controversy concerns title to lands allotted after her death to Emma Patterson, a Choctaw Indian. Once within the Southern Judicial District of Indian Territory, they are now in Murray, Stephens and Carter counties, Oklahoma.. By original complaint presented to the Murray County District Court, February 21, 1920, respondents here — William M. Patterson, surviving husband of Mrs. Patterson, and their five children — alleged that, although petitioner U. Sherman Joines had held actual and peaceful possession of the lands since July 5, 1907, the legal title thereto was in them. And they…