Irwin v. Irwin

The opinion of the court was delivered by This case was decided and the judgment of the court below reversed and the cause remanded for new trial, at the June, 1894, term of this court (Irwin v. Irwin, 2 Okla. Rep. 180,) and the plaintiff in error has filed his petition for rehearing, which has been granted upon the question of the jurisdiction of the probate court in the cause.

In the decision in this case, this court held that, by § 4966 of the laws of Oklahoma of 1890, and by the subsequent congressional ratification of this provision of the territorial legislative enactments, jurisdiction…