Legal Opinion

Baldridge v. Sunday

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided November 26, 1918No. 8522PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Error from District Court, Nowata County; W. A. Chase, Special Judge. Action by William E. Sunday against Ellen Baldridge. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

STEWART, C.

The plaintiff brought action in ejectment against defendant setting up title to 50 acres of land, being the original allotment of William Mabry, a freedman citizen of the Cherokee Nation, who died on December 25, 1905, without issue, leaving as his sole surviving heir, his mother, Ellen Baldridge, nee Mabry, from whom alone deceased derived his right to Cherokee citizenship; his father being Thomas Mabry, a noncitizen. It is alleged that, after the death of William Mabry, his said mother conveyed the land to one John J. Bogard, under whom by deed of conveyance the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. First Nat. Bank of Watonga v. WadeSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1910
  2. Chickasaw Loan & Trust Co. v. MillsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1916

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Mobbs v. City of LehighSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1982
  2. Kline v. MuellerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1928
  3. Gill v. FixicoSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1920
  4. Likowski v. CatlettSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1928
  5. Allen v. JonesSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1941

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