Mellott v. Lambert

This case involves an appeal from the decision of the district court of Osage county, restoring Jeanette Pappin Lambert, theretofore declared an incompetent, to competency. For convenience parties will be referred to as petitioner and respondent, as they were in the court below.

The evidence in the case is, in substance: That Jeanette Pappin Lambert was an Osage allottee of three-eighths degree Indian blood: that at the time of the trial she was 36 years of age; that she has the equivalent of a common school education; was in possession of all her mental faculties, and is not addicted to the…