Belt v. Bush
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Haskell County : W. H. Brown, Judge. Petition by Sheldon Bush personally and as administrator of the estate of Linda Bush and Daniel Bush to have a homestead set. apart for the family of deceased, opposed by W. L. Belt and others. From an order setting apart a homestead of Linda Bush, deceased, to Sheldon Bush and Daniel Buffi, defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
RUMMONS, C.
Defendant in error, Sheldon Bush, about the year 1900 married Linda Folsom, a full-blood Choctaw Indian. At the time of the marriage, Linda Folsom had four children — Charlie Walker, George Walker, Elizabeth Prince (nee Walker), and Sam Folsom, all full-blood Choctaw Indians. After the marriage the defendant in error, Daniel Bush, was born. At the time of the trial he was about 14 years of age. Linda Bush and her five children each received an allotment. The land here in controversy is part of a tract of about 200 acres' allotted to Linda Bush. Charlie Walker, one of the…
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