Estate of Winton v. Amos

This case comes to the court under special jurisdictional acts. This suit is one by various claimants to recover for services rendered and expenses incurred in securing Mississippi Choctaw Indians the right of citizenship in the Choctaw tribe. The whole controversy extends over a long period of years, is much involved, and the statement of the case must be extracted from a most voluminous record of hundreds of pages of printed testimony, which, together with the briefs of counsel, make up ten printed volumes of considerable size.

The native habitat of the Choctaw Indians was in the South,…