MURRAH, Circuit Judge.
The sole question presented by this appeal is whether under the law of Oklahoma a husband who abandoned his lawful wife and contracted a bigamous marriage with another woman and thereafter lived and cohabited with her, may claim a share in the deceased wife's estate according to the law of descent and distribution. The facts are not in dispute.
Sallie Norton, a full-blood Cherokee Indian, was married to Fred Norton, a white man, on August...
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