Groom v. Dyer
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Creek County; Ernest B. Hughes, Judge. Action by Walter W. Groom (William L. Cheatham, substituted plaintiff) against Joseph E. Dyer. Judgment for defendant, motion for new trial overruled, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtPitchford, J.
’Minnie Barnhill, nee Sawyer, a full-blood Creek Indian, enrolled opposite No. 8421, died February 14, 1907, leaving surviving her Albert Barnhill, her husband, Hepsey Bear, her mother ,and her half-sisters, Susie Johnson, Hattie Bush, and her half-brother, Thomas Lewis. All of the above named were full-blood Indians except the husband. Albert Barnhill. The plaintiff claims title to the allotment by virtue of the deed executed by Hepsey Bear on the 11th day of September, 1911, to A. J. Combs, said deed being approved by the county judge of McIntosh county on the same date.
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