Moore v. Harjo

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

Louis Harjo, a full-blood enrolled Seminole Indian, was allotted a tract of land in Seminole County, Oklahoma. The allottee died intestate, owning the land, unmarried, without issue, and survived by his mother, a sister, Nellie White, nee Harjo, and three brothers, Chilley Ross, Eplumke Harjo, and Jimmie Harjo, all full-blood enrolled Seminole Indians. Jimmie Harjo died intestate, survived by his wife, and a son, Edmond Harjo. The mother of the allottee died intestate and without surviving husband. Her heirs were Nellie White and Edmond Harjo. In 1908, Nellie White and…