Woolverton v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following are the facts as found by the court: I. The deceased claimant, Alfred Woolverton, was a citizen of the United States. II. On the 13th day of September, 1877, his house and certain personal property were set ñre to, burned, and destroyed by Indians without cause or provocation on his part. The house and property were situated in the Territory of Montana. III.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following are the facts as found by the court: I. The deceased claimant, Alfred Woolverton, was a citizen of the United States. II. On the 13th day of September, 1877, his house and certain personal property were set ñre to, burned, and destroyed by Indians without cause or provocation on his part. The house and property were situated in the Territory of Montana. III. The Indians who committed this depredation were Joseph’s band of Nez Perce Indians, then in a state of war and actual hostilities with the United States. These Indians were a part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
On the 13th of September, 1877, the United States were engaged in a somewhat celebrated Indian war with a body of Indians known as Joseph’s band of the Nez Perce''Indians. At that time the Indian defendants in this case were not only at peace with the United States, but acting as their military allies.
The international character of the band was this: In 1855 they were directly or indirectly parties to the treaty with the Nez Perces. (12 Stat. L., p. 957.) It appears by the treaty that one of the chiefs who signed it was named Joseph, and it *109was assumed on the argument from the identity of…
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