Legal Opinion
Gerard v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 15, 1948No. 11591PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the complaint of two Blackfeet Indians seeking to establish title to land held by them under trust patents issued to them on land previously allotted to them. The dismissal was on the ground that the United States is a necessary party and that its wards have no power so to join it.
The complaint alleges the land covered by the trust patent is in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The plaintiffs are members of that tribe and the trust patent was made under the Treaty of 1887, 25 Stat. 113, with that tribe and the Allotment Act of…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Heckman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Hallowell v. CommonsSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Scholder v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1970
- Prairie Band of Pottawatomie Tribe of Indians v. PuckkeeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1963
- United States v. Genevieve Pierce, Carrie Pierce McCoy Anna Pierce, Ruth Carmichael Nee Urton, Marcus Pete, Jr., and Elizabeth PeteCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956
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