St. Clair v. St. Clair

Riner, Justice.

This is a proceeding by direct appeal to review several orders made by the District Court of Fremont County, in the course of the probate of the estate of John St. Clair, deceased, in said court. The facts out of which the controversy arose appear to be, in substance, these:

On December 24, 1928, John St. Clair, a member of the Shoshone Indian tribe, died on the tribal reservation in Fremont County, Wyoming. With him at the time of his death was Annie Tidzump St. Clair, an Indian woman, with whom he had been living; as his wife, for more than 18 years, their marriage having been…