Thompson v. Cornelius
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Okmulgee County; Wade S. Stanfield, Judge. Action by Pearlie Thompson, by her guardian, Harwood Keaton, against W. D. Cornelius. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtTurner, J.
On October 24, 1910, in the district court of Okmulgee county, Pearlie Thompson, a minor, by her guardian sued W. D. Cornelius to clear her title. The facts admitted by the demurrer to defendant’s answer are that in June, 1909, Percilla Rentie, a citizen of the Creek Nation, died intestate, after receiving her allotment, leaving her surviving her husband, Spencer Thompson, a non-citizen of the Creek Nation, and Pearlie Thompson, their only child, who is also a citizen of the Creek Nation, and that thereafter Spencer Thompson conveyed to W. D. Cornelius an undivided one-half interest in the…
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