Barbee v. . Bumpass

In tbe language of a Cherokee Indian, “the plaintiffs have lawed the defendants to kill a deed,” in fact two; or, in other words, the action is one, brought under C. S., 1743, to quiet title or. to remove a cloud therefrom, which, it is alleged, arises out of a claim by the defendants to the lands in question by reason of two deeds executed by Jennie Barbee to her husband, Green Barbee, 19 February, 1913, without complying, in either case, with the provisions of O. S., 2515, requiring the probate officer, as a condition precedent to the validity of the conveyance, to certify in his…