Florence Springer v. G. L. Townsend

HILL, Circuit Judge.

This diversity action was brought in the court below by the appellant, Florence Springer, against the appellee, G. L. Townsend, to quiet title to certain real estate located in Creek County, Oklahoma. The appeal is from an order and judgment quieting title to the real estate in appellee and from the court’s order denying appellant’s motion for a new trial.

The real estate in question was originally the allotment of Jennetta Richard, a fullblood and enrolled Creek Indian. By subsequent marriages, she became Jennetta Barnett and then Jennetta Byrd. She died, intestate, on…