Legal Opinion
Jones v. Merfeldt
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 20, 1924No. 21758PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, O. J.
This appeal involves the title to 60 acres of land allotted to Arlington Jones, a half-blood Cherokee Indian, who died intestate, April '25, 1906, in what is now Craig- county, leaving as his sole and. only heir at law, his father, Levi Jones, a full-blood Cherokee Indian. This land is in Nowata county.
On May'8, 1907, Levi Jones executed a deed conveying the land here involved to one J. P. Madison, and thereafter on September 7, 1912, he executed a second deed conveying the said land to Madison. Neither of these deeds was approved as provided and required by law.
On September 7,…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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