Bilby v. Stewart
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brandeis
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, which affirmed on appeal the judgment of the Dis trict Court declining to probate an alleged will of Bruner, a full-blood Creek Indian, who, in the year 1912, died in that State possessed of his allotment, a bachelor without surviving parent.
The Act of April 26, 1906, c. 1876, 34 Stat. 137, relating to the Five Civilized Tribes, by § 19, prohibits members, for. a period of twenty-five years, from alienating lands allotted to them; but by § 23, as amended by § 8 of the Act of May 27, 1908, c. 199, 35 Stat. 312, 315, provides that,…
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