Washington v. Stover

The undisputed facts in this case disclose that one Mary Washington, enrolled as a full-blood Creek Indian, died in McIntosh county, Okla., November 27, 1922. She left surviving as her sole and only heirs, her husband, Wallace Washington, plaintiff in error, a brother, Martin Simmons, and a half-sister, Susan Harjo, the husband being a white man, and the brother and sister restricted Creek Indians. That' some time after the death of Mary Washington, Susan Harjo instituted an action in the county court of McIntosh county, Okla., for the purpose of determining the question of fact as to who…