Simpson v. Hicks

This appeal is prosecuted to reverse the judgment of the district court of Pontotoc county, rendered in favor of the defendant against the plaintiff. The plaintiff in the trial court was Hugh Simpson, who is plaintiff in error; the defendants in the trial court were George H. Hicks and others, who are the defendants in error.

The action was in ejectment, the plaintiff claiming to be entitled to the possession of certain lands, the restricted surplus allotment of one Thomas Graham, a full-blood Choctaw Indian, to whom the land had been allotted and patented under the allotment acts. The suit…