Brown v. Thomason

BERRY, Justice.

In the County Court of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, Charles A. Thomason, defendant in error, hereinafter referred to as *453“proponent”, on the 27th day of June, 1958, filed a petition for the probate of the purported will of Willis Brown, dated November 27, 1957. Willis Brown, who was an enrolled full-blood Chickasaw Indian, will hereinafter be referred to as “testator”.

On August 11, 1958, Annie Isabelle Brown, now Imotichey, Eliza Jane Brown, now Bose, and Bogan Brown, plaintiffs in error, hereinafter referred to as “contestants”, filed a contest of the will. On August 14, 1958,…