Pigeon v. Buck

Citations

• 237 U.S. 386
• 35 S. Ct. 608
• 59 L. Ed. 1007
• 1915 U.S. LEXIS 1343

Syllabus

<p>McDougal v. McKay, ante, p. 372, followed to the effect that an allotment made to a full blooded Creek Indian is, for purposes of descent and distribution, to be considered, not as a new acquisition, but as an ancestral estate and passes as such under chapter 49 of Mansfield’s Digest of the Laws of Arkansas.</p> <p>The same ruling also applies to an allotment of a full blooded Chickasaw Indian.</p>