United States v. Reynolds
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The caséis stated in the opinion. It is true that the provisional or trust patent did not actually issue until February 6, 1892, or perhaps more correctly speaking it was dated as of that date, but it is likewise true that Stella Washington’s right to a preliminary patent vested on the instant her allotment was approved.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The caséis stated in the opinion. It is true that the provisional or trust patent did not actually issue until February 6, 1892, or perhaps more correctly speaking it was dated as of that date, but it is likewise true that Stella Washington’s right to a preliminary patent vested on the instant her allotment was approved. Her equitable title was then complete and did not depend upon the delivery of the trust patent. Ballinger v. Frost, 216 U. S. 240. By the very terms of the approval the patent was ordered issued positively and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
This was a suit brought by the United States in behalf of Claudius Tyner and ten other persons, heirs at law of Stella Washington, deceased, who was a member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; its object being to cancel a deed made by Tyner to Suda Reynolds on February 17, 1917, purporting to convey an undivided eleventh interest in a tract of land inherited by the eleven heirs from Stella Washington, who was the allottee thereof. The legal title to the tract was held by the United States under a certificate of allotment or -‘trust patent,” dated February 6, 1892,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Cornelius v. KesselSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Orchard v. AlexanderSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Ballinger v. United States Ex Rel. FrostSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Barney v. DolphSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Simmons v. WagnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
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- United States v. McCurdyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1922
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