Legal Opinion
Shepard v. United States
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided June 11, 1958No. 57-C-51PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
GRUBB, District Judge.
Plaintiff James Shepard is a member of the Potawatomie Indian tribe of Kansas, born in 1902 on the Potawatomie Reservation in Kansas. On May 23,1905, Shepard was allotted 80 acres of land in the Kansas Reservation by certificate of allotment under the General Allotment Act of February 8, 1887, 24 Stat. 389, 25 U.S.C.A. § 331 et seq. Pursuant to the General Allotment Act, 25 U.S.C.A. § 348, this certificate of allotment provided:
“ * * * that the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, has allotted, and by these presents does allot, unto the said * * *…
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- Clark Squire, Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Washington v. Horton Capoeman and Emma Capoeman, His WifeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1955
- Dick v. CommissionerCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1935