Means v. Terrell

The facts out of which ' the controversy arose are that a Choctaw Indian woman, enrolled as a fuli-blood,’ and having only full-blood heirs, died intestate in Haskell county, Okla., on March 21, 1923, having allotted lands, part in section 20, township 10 north, range 22 east, and part in section 1, township 9 north, range 21 east. One of the heirs, Cephus W. Scott, here made a defendant in error, mortgaged his interest in the land in section 20 to plaintiff in error for $400, which mortgage was approved by .the county court April 7, 192S. This mortgage was not placed of record in Haskell…