Brown v. Briggs

The parties are referred to by their trial court designations. This is an action by plaintiff to quiet title to a certain described forty acres in Creek County, and to which defendants filed a cross-petition asking that title be determined in them as to an undivided one-third interest. The facts, as found by the trial court, are: that Elijah Canard, or Walker, was the sole heir of the deceased allottee; that Elijah Canard died, leaving as his heirs, Polly, his wife; Johnnie and Jimmie, his sons; and Agnes or Maggie, his illegitimate daughter, whom he acknowledged as his daughter in his will,…