Thorn v. Cone
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Seminole County; Tom D. McKeown, Judge. Action between J. E. Thorn and H. L. Cone and others. From the judgment, Thorn brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtKane, C. J.
This is a controversy between the maternal and paternal kinsmen of Sissie and Lena Jefferson, two full-blood Seminole Indian allottees, who died intestate and without descendants on the 12th day of February, 1903, and the 20th day of July, 1904, respectively, over the devolution of their allotted lands. Upon trial to the court the controversy was decided below in favor of the maternal relations of the decedents, whereupon the paternal relations filed this proceeding in error in the Supreme Court.
The -contention of the prevailing parties is stated by their counsel in their brief as follows:
“Our…
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