Brown v. Burris

This appeal involves the probate of either of two wills executed by Sisón Harney, who was a full-blood Chickasaw Indian woman about 90 years old, and had been under guardianship as an incompetent for many years before her death on Slay 29, 1930. All devisees under both wills submitted for probate were in like manner full-blood Chickasaws. None of the devisees were legal heirs of the deceased, but both sides stood in that close connection where it ought to occasion no surprise that Sisón Harney should name him or them as beneficiaries in her will.

In the year 1923 Sisón Harney made a will with…