United States v. Hale

KENNAMER, District Judge.

The plaintiff brought this action to quiet title to 160 acres of land located in Osage county, Okl. The land was allotted to Um-pah-to-kah, a member of the Osage Tribe of Indians. There is no controversy as to the facts, and they may be briefly summarized as follows:

Um-pah-to-kah, the allottee, died intestate in July, 1910, a' minor, without issue, and left surviving as her sole and only heirs at law her father, George Bigheart, and her mother, Pah-me-she-wah. The father and mother became vested with the title to the allotment in equal shares. George Bigheart, as a…