Starks v. Joines

¡COCHRAN, J.

Bessie Leola Starks, by her legal guardian, filed this suit to recover the allotment of land which was patented to her as a member, Qf the Choctaw Tribe of Indians. The defendant answered and asserted title to said lands by virtue of a guardianship sale made by the guardian of said minor through the county court of Bryan county, Okla. An agreed statement of facts disclosed that a petition for appointment as guardian of Bessie Leola Starks was filed by T. S. Starks, her father, in the office of the clerk of the United States Court for the Indian Territory, in the Durant Division of…