Redeagle v. Channing

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court of Ottawa county, Okla., sustaining several demurrers to the amended petition filed therein on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the action. The subject-matter of that action was an undivided one-half interest claimed by the plaintiffs in the allotment of a deceased full-blood member of the Quapaw Tribe of Indians. The land is situated in Ottawa county. The plaintiffs alleged that they were paternal heirs and, as such, entitled to a one-half interest in the property. The defendants claimed the…