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CHILDERS v. BEAVER

No. 202.

270 U.S. 555 (1926)

46 S.Ct. 387

70 L.Ed. 730

CHILDERS, STATE AUDITOR, v. BEAVER ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 12, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Berry King, Assistant Attorney General of Oklahoma, with whom Messrs. George F. Short, Attorney General, Leon S. Hirsh, Assistant Attorney General, and C.H. Nicholas were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Joseph W. Howell for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

See-Sah Quapaw, a full-blood Quapaw Indian woman, died March 4, 1920. She owned certain duly allotted lands in Oklahoma, patented by the Secretary of the Interior September 26, 1896, and declared to be "inalienable for a period of twenty-five years" thereafter — all as provided by the Act of March 2, 1895, c. 188, § 1, 28 Stat. 876, 907. Following the state statute of descent, the Secretary declared...

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