ESTATE OF SAMOCHEE

No. 48463.

542 P.2d 498 (1975)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of SAMOCHEE, Fullblood Seminole Roll No. 1285, Deceased. Robert SAMOCHEE and Tema Samochee, Appellants, v. Nora BRUNER, Executrix of the Estate of Samochee, Fullblood Seminole Roll No. 1285, Deceased, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

October 28, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Roberts, Wewoka, for appellants.

T.H. Williams, Jr., Wewoka, for appellee.


BERRY, Justice.

This is appeal from trial court's order admitting will to probate.

Samochee [testator], a fullblood Seminole Indian who spoke the Seminole language but could not speak, read, write, or understand English, executed a will on November 15, 1973.

In the will he gave his wife, Ida Bruner Samochee, his "love and affection." He devised his one-half mineral interest in three 40 acre tracts to his two...

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