STONE, Circuit Judge.
A Creek allottee died intestate on March 14, 1919, without issue, leaving a husband and both parents. The husband was an enrolled Choctaw — the parents were enrolled Creeks.
This controversy is whether the husband was an heir as to this allotted land. At the time of death, the Oklahoma statute (Rev. Laws 1910, § 8418) cast descent, where no issue, as follows: One-half to the husband and one-half to the parent (equal shares...
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