Manuel v. Smith Et Vir.

DUNN, J. This case presents error from the district court of Okmulgee county. Malinda Manuel, as plaintiff, brought her action against Ada Smith and James C. Smith; as defendants, to cancel certain deeds and for an accounting. Counsel for plaintiff in error state that the case was submitted to the court below on an agreed statement of facts setting up substantially the following: That the lands in suit were lands allotted to Clyde Perryman, who was a freedman member of the Creek Tribe of Indians and who died in the month of June, 1902; that he was the son of plaintiff herein, who, on September 13, 1905,- executed a deed to Ada Smith, the consideration named being $600; that the plaintiff offered to return the money with interest and prayed that an accounting be had, and that she be allowed reasonable *479 rents and profits 'for the time which the defendants had possession of the land. The contention is made that the deed was executed for an inadequate and' unconscionable consideration and in violation of the express provisions of the Original and Supplemental Creek Agreements, and was void. It is further contended that it was .void in so far as it affected the homestead allotment, and being void in part, was void in toto. The only question really presented by the agreed statement of facts, and argued and briefed, is the one relating to the right of plaintiff to alienate the land, homestead and surplus, on September 13, 1905, and this 'question, on the authority of Parkinson v. Skelton, 33 Okla. 813, 128 Pac. 131, Rentie v. McCoy, ante, 128 Pac. 244, Hawkins v. Oklahoma Oil Co. et al. (195 Fed. 345), an opinion of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, filed December 28, 1911, and United States v. Jacobs (195 Fed. 707), an opinion of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit, must be decided in accordance with the judgment rendered by the trial court. The opinions in those cases holding, in effect, that the homestead character did not attach to any portion of this land, notwithstanding the fact that one of the deeds issued nominated a portion of it as such, and that if any restrictions existed, they had been removed in 1905 by the act of April 21, 1904 (33 St. at L. 189), and the heirs had the right to alienate. The judgment of the trial court is therefore affirmed. TURNER, J., concurs; KANE, J., concurs in the'conclusion; PIAYES, C. J., and WILLIAMS, J., absent, and not participating.