White v. Armstrong

This was an action by Cora White, nee Foster, a Cherokee freedwom-an duly enrolled, to cancel a deed to her allotments alleged to have been obtained from her through fraud, coercion, and undue influence, and also upon the further grounds that the deed was executed before she had attained her majority, and that the consideration named in the deed was wholly inadequate, and that she had received none of the consideration mentioned in the deed, but had been defrauded of it all. The defendants’ answer in legal effect consisted of only a general denial and specific denial of the facts alleged in…