Kemp v. Turnbull
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
1Opinion of the Court
HURST, V.C.J.
This "is a suit to quiet title to a 160-acre tract of land in Bryan county. The land was the homestead allotment of Roberson Kemp, a full-blood Choctaw Indian, and was occupied by him and his wife as a constitutional homestead at the time of his death, and thereafter his wife, Melissa Kemp, continued to possess and occupy the land as a probate homestead until her death. A short time prior to his death on April 2, 1.922, Roberson Kemp, who had no surviving child or párent, executed a will under which he devised to his wife, Melissa Kemp, a life estate and one-third of the fee…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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