Chase v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District ■of Nebraska; Page Morris, Judge. Action by the United States, as trustee and guardian of the Omaha Tribe of Indians, and of Rose Wolf Setter, a member of said tribe, against Hiram Chase. Judgment for the United States, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The question in this case is whether Hiram Chase, the sole heir of the grantee of a' tract of 40 acres of land under section 4 of the treaty of March 6, 1865, with the Omaha Tribe of Indians (14 Stat. 667, 668), or Rose Wolf Setter, the sole heir of the grantee of the same land under section 5 of the act for the sale of a part of the reservation of the Omaha Tribe of Indians of August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. p. 434, pp. 341, 342), has the title and the right to the possession of the tract. The facts which condition the answer to this question were set forth and admitted in…
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