Buck v. Branson
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Ottawa County; T. L. Brown, Judge. Action by Mary Buck against C. M. Branson, George E. Bowling, and Miami Investment Company, for possession of real estate. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error. This case was begun in 1902 in the United States Court in the Indian Territory. On November 11, 1907, a second amended complaint was filed.
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Error from District Court, Ottawa County; T. L. Brown, Judge. Action by Mary Buck against C. M. Branson, George E. Bowling, and Miami Investment Company, for possession of real estate. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error. This case was begun in 1902 in the United States Court in the Indian Territory. On November 11, 1907, a second amended complaint was filed. With the advent of statehood, the cause was transferred to the district' court of Ottawa county, where it was tried in 1909. The plaintiff in error claims title to the land in controversy asUhe wife of Pe-te-lon-o-zah, or…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
ROBERTSON, C.
(after stating the facts as above). Plaintiff in error, for a recovery in this case, depends upon three primary propositions of law, viz.:
First. Did Congress, by ‘its legislation in case of a separation, not followed .by divorce, give to that separation in determining heirship and successors to allotted lands in the Peoria Reservation the force and effect of a divorce as commonly understood by the term?
Second. If such was the case, and the parties by separation by mutual agreement could dissolve the marriage status, did Congress even intend by adopting the Kansas law to…
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