Supreme Court of Kansas January 15, 1878 (Clark v. Lord)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Horton, C. J.:

The main questions involved in this case are — First, Did Eliza Richardson, a member of the Ottawa tribe of Indians, who if she had lived till the 1st of December 1865 would have been entitled to a patent from the United States for the land in controversy, have, at the time of her death, in the fall of 1862, an inheritable estate in such