UNITED STATES COURT.
A Woman's Fight for a Place at Last Successful.
More than two years ago Martha Garbrino brought suit against Wm. Lauchner, et al, for possession of an improvement on the public domain five or six miles south of town. The defendants in the suit were claimants to Cherokee citizenship and Miss Garbrino is a Cherokee Indian woman, the case was decided in favor of the plaintiff and a writ of ejectment issued and the defendants evicted from the premises. In the meantime, Grant Lauchner, a brother of the principal defendant in the suit married a Cherokee girl and entered into possession of a portion of the land embraced in the order of the court and brought suit against the deputy marshal who ejected him from the premises. The trial came up yesterday and was one of the most interesting as well as important cases tried at the present term. The testimony developed the fact that Lauchner could not have held legal possession at any time, either before or after his marriage in 1896, with a Cherokee by blood, as the Cherokee enactment December 16, 1895, estoped him from enjoying even political rights in the Cherokee nation, much less property rights under said marriage. The judge instructed the jury to return a verdict for Miss Garbrino.
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