Chinnubbee v. Nicks
Supreme Court of Alabama
QUESTION IN THIS CASE. Relative to lands of which an Indian widow is dowa-Me. This was a proceeding, instituted’in. Talladega Circuit Court, by tlie plaintiff in error, the widow of General Chinnubbee, a Creek chieftain of that tribe; .on a claim of dower.
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QUESTION IN THIS CASE. Relative to lands of which an Indian widow is dowa-Me. This was a proceeding, instituted’in. Talladega Circuit Court, by tlie plaintiff in error, the widow of General Chinnubbee, a Creek chieftain of that tribe; .on a claim of dower. The land, of which the plaintiff prayed to be endowed, had been selected by her husband, in conformity with a provision of the treaty, entered into, on the 24th March, 1S32, between the United States and the Creek tribe of Indians. General Chinnub-bee, after the selection, conveyed to the defendants in error, all his right title and…
1Opinion of the CourtHopkins, J.
This was an application of the plaintiff in error for dower, as the widow of Chinnubbee, who was a chief of the Creek tribe of Indians.— That she was his wife, at the time of his death, was admitted by the defendants, in the suggestion of her want of the right she claimed, which they filed in the Circuit Court, to which she made her application, and has not been questioned in this Court, by their counsel. The land in which dower in this case is demanded, is a selection that was made by Chin-nubbee, in his life-time, under the treaty between the United States and the Creek tribe of Indians,…
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