Goldfeder v. Johnson

BLACKBIRD, Chief Justice.

The principal issue involved in this action is whether a White man, named “Nudy White”, or a full blood Indian, named “Johnson”, inherited, as her surviving husband, an undivided one-half interest in the 160 acres of land allotted to a woman enrolled as a full blood member of the Choctaw Tribe of Indians, under the name of “Flora Homma”, when she died, or was murdered, on December 1, 19S7, at the home of one George Tishka, or Tisha, near Golden, in McCurtain County.

The marriage ceremony in which Flora and White were the principals was performed November 7, 1956, under…