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GRISSO v. UNITED STATES

No. 2708.

138 F.2d 996 (1943)

GRISSO v. UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

November 10, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. F. Semple, of Tulsa, Okl. (Ben Carter, of Durant, Okl., on the brief), for appellant.

Fred W. Smith, of Washington, D. C., (Norman M. Littell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cleon A. Summers, U. S. Atty., and Charles N. Champion, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Muskogee, Okl., and Vernon L. Wilkinson, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, BRATTON, and HUXMAN, Circuit Judges.

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

A tract of land in Bryan County, Oklahoma, was allotted to Evan Jim, an enrolled, full-blood Choctaw Indian, as his homestead. The allottee died intestate in 1919, leaving as his heirs at law his wife, Germain Jim, an enrolled, full-blood Choctaw, and his daughter, Frances Bessie Jim, born after March 4, 1906. Germain Jim later married Barnett Simpson, and she died intestate in 1924, leaving as her heirs at law her husband, Barnett Simpson...

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