In Re Davis' Estate

Thompson Davis was a 72-year-old full-blood restricted Indian. He was a bachelor and had no living parents, brothers, sisters, or children. In April, 1929, he married, and a few days later he executed a will leaving all of his estate, consisting chiefly of about $50,000 in cash and bonds held for him by the Indian Agency, to his wife, Effie Davis, the defendant in error. He died January 16, 1933, and thereafter the widow filed her petition for the probate of the will in the county court of Craig county, whereupon, the plaintiffs in error, certain collateral kindred of the deceased, contested…