Legal Opinion

In Re Harney's Estate

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided June 11, 1935No. 23881PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

This appeal involves the probate of either of two wills executed by Sison Harney, who was a full-blood Chickasaw Indian woman about 90 years old, and had been under guardianship as an incompetent for many years before her death on May 29, 1930. All devisees under both wills submitted for probate were in like manner full-blood Chickasaws. None of the devisees were legal heirs of the deceased, but both sides stood in that close connection where it ought to occasion no surprise that Sison Harney should name him or them as beneficiaries in her will.

In the year 1923 Sison Harney made a will with…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Hunter v. BattiestSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1920
  2. Lena v. PattersonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1925
  3. In Re Delancy's EstateSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1932
  4. Sutton v. DelancySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1932

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. In Re Devine's EstateSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1941

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