Smith v. Skelton

This was a suit in equity, commenced by the defendant in error, plaintiff below, against the plaintiff in error, defendant below, to quiet the title to two quarter sections of land situated in Okmulgee county. Hereafter the parties will be designated “plaintiff” and “defendant,” respectively, as they appeared in the court below.

These tracts of land were the allotments of ■Virginia and Lela Hodge, both deceased. The defendant Smith claimed a one-fifth interest in these lands through title deraigned from one Jennie Yarbrough, who was the daughter of Betsy Hodge, who in turn claimed to be the…