BILBY v. STEWART

No. 160.

246 U.S. 255 (1918)

BILBY ET AL. v. STEWART ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 4, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lewis C. Lawson for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. George C. Crump, Mr. Jasper L. Skinner and Mr. J. Ross Bailey for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, which affirmed on appeal the judgment of the District Court declining to probate an alleged will of Bruner, a full-blood Creek Indian, who, in the year 1912, died in that State possessed of his allotment, a bachelor without surviving parent.

The Act of April 26, 1906, c. 1876, 34 Stat. 137, relating to...

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