HARJO'S HEIRS v. STANDLEY

No. 37150.

305 P.2d 864 (1956)

Shanco HARJO'S HEIRS, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, immediate and remote; and Henry Porter Bryant; Octavie Miles; Rosa Wright; Viola Humby; Mattie Webb; Marie Bryant Dale; Dorothy Helen Bryant Sexton; Jessie Lee Johnson; Bertha Johnson; Ray Bryant; and Pat Bryant; Plaintiffs in Error, v. Hugh STANDLEY as an individual and as Trustee for Beaulah Ann Standley, now Goff; and as Trustee for Grace Standley; Grace Truman Standley; Roger Edward Standley; Cordelia Charlotte Standley, now Sibley; Marian C. Palmer; John T. Palmer; and Josephine Palmer Wylie; Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied January 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Nesbitt, Oklahoma City, Glen D. Johnson, Hugh Coleman Nolen, Okemah (Sam Weber, St. Louis, Mo., Smith & Shay, Wichita, Kan., of counsel), for plaintiffs in error.

Leon C. Phillips, Martin L. Frerichs, Okemah, for defendants in error.


PER CURIAM.

Defendants in error, as plaintiffs, brought this action by petition filed June 8, 1954, in the District Court of Okfuskee County, to determine the heirs of Shanco Harjo, deceased, a full-blood Creek Indian and to quiet title to 160 acres of land allotted to him as homestead and surplus allotments. Plaintiffs claim title under deeds from the heirs of the decedent and by adverse possession.

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