Legal Opinion

Kemp v. Turnbull

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided October 15, 1946No. 32037PublishedCited by 11 opinions

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

  1. Coats v. RileySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1931
  2. Pence v. ColeSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1922
  3. Bacus v. BurnsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1915
  4. May v. CaskerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1940
  5. Porter v. HansenSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1941

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Matter of Estate of WallaceSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1982
  2. State Ex Rel. American Flyers Airline Corp. v. Superior Court of Creek CountySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1967
  3. Morrison v. BarhamCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1960
  4. Wood v. BiggsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1966
  5. Matter of Estate of MeyersSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1985

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