STEWART v. KEYES

No. 142.

295 U.S. 403 (1935)

STEWART v. KEYES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 20, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William Neff for appellant.

Mr. Richard H. Wills, with whom Messrs. James C. Denton and A.M. Beets were on the brief, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was a suit brought in a court of Seminole County, Oklahoma, by a full-blood Creek Indian to recover an interest in land inherited from his grandmother, also a full-blood Creek Indian, and afterward sold by his guardian. The asserted grounds for a recovery were (1) that the proceedings whereby the plaintiff was adjudged an incompetent and subjected to guardianship...

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