ROE v. ANCO OIL CO.

ROE v. ANCO OIL CO.
1923 OK 710
219 P. 922
96 Okla. 87
Case Number: 12729
Decided: 09/25/1923
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

ROE
v.
ANCO OIL CO. et al.

Syllabus

¶0 Indians--Descent of Allotments--Cases Controlling.
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed upon the authority of In re Estate of Robert Pigeon, 81 Okla. 180, 198 P. 309, and other cases herein cited.

Error from District Court, Muskogee County: Guy F. Nelson. Judge.

Action by Mattie Roe, a minor, by her guardian and next friend, against the Anco Oil Company, a corporation et al., to quiet title. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error. Affirmed.

Neff & Neff, for plaintiff in error.
Geo. S. Ramsey, J. C. Denton, Edgar A. DeMeules, Malcolm E. Rosser, and Villard Martin, for defendants in error.

KENNAMER J.

¶1 This case involves the allotment of Elijah Roe, a freedman citizen of the Creek Nation, who died in July, 1911, intestate, unmarried, and without issue, leaving his father, Marshall Roe, enrolled as a Seminole freedman, brothers and sisters enrolled as Creek freedmen, and a niece, a child of a sister of the deceased. The defendants in the case claimed an interest in the land under conveyances from the father of the deceased allottee. It is contended by the plaintiff in error that the father did not inherit the land allotted by the deceased allottee. Under the rule announced by this court in the following cases: In re Estate of Robert Pigeon, 81 Okla. 180, 198 P. 309: Teague v. Smith, 85 Okla. 12, 204 P. 439; Harrison v. Harrison 87 Okla. 91, 209 P. 737; Murray v. Goad, 88 Okla. 300, 213 P. 73: Jackson v. McKay, 89 Okla. 119, 213 P. 876, the father of Elijah Roe inherited the allotment.

¶2 This case is also controlled by the rule announced in case No. 11851, Edmond McKay v. Mattie Roe, a minor, in which an opinion has this day been filed, 96 Okla. 87, 219 P. 921.

¶3 For the reasons stated the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.