Jimeson v. Lehley

Matilda Jimeson, a ¡New York Indian, died intestate on the 20th day of December, 1904. It is claimed that she was married to the plaintiff in the year 1890; and it is not disputed that she was the mother of two children, Oscar and Ruth, both of them under age, who have lived with the plaintiff during at least one year prior to the commencement of this action. Matilda Jimeson, as a member of the Seneca Ration of Indians, would, if living, have been entitled to a proportionate share of an award made by the Federal courts under the treaty of Buffalo Creek of 1838, and the plaintiff’s theory…