United States v. Wright
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. Action by the United States against Willis Wright and others. Judgment for defendants, and the United States appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
J. W. Hunt was born September 6, 1882, a member of the Quapaw Tribe, and received in two separate allotments an aggregate of 200 acres of land in the Quapaw reservation, in northeastern Oklahoma; his patents being dated, respectively, September 26 and October 19, 1896.
[1] The law ordinarily taking no cognizance of fractions of days, one becomes of full age the first moment of the day before his twenty-first anniversary. State v. Clarke, 3 Har. (Del.) 557; Wells v. Wells, 6 Ind. 447; Hamlin v. Stevenson, 4 Dana (Ky.) 597. Hunt therefore-became of age the. first moment of…
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