Legal Opinion
Grisso v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 10, 1943No. 2708PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRATTON, Circuit Judge.
A tract of land in Bryan County, Oklahoma, was allotted to Evan Jim, an enrolled, full-blood Choctaw Indian, as his homestead. The allottee died intestate in 1919, leaving as his heirs at law his wife, Germain Jim, an enrolled, full-blood Choctaw, and his daughter, Frances Bessie Jim, born after March 4, 1906. Germain Jim later married Barnett Simpson, and she died intestate in 1924, leaving as her heirs at law her husband, Barnett Simpson, an enrolled, full-blood Choctaw, and four children, Pearl Fisher, Frances Bessie Jim, Robert Simpson, and Charles Simpson, all…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Holloway v. McIlhenny Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1890
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