Ayres v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The court filed, its findings of the facts in this cause subject to possible correction as to certain immaterial items. The findings therefore are not inserted in the report of the case; but the material facts will be found set forth in the opinion of the court, together with the reasons for the judgment that the claimants should be paid nothing for want of proof of a legal or equitable title, and for other reasons therein set forth.
1Opinion of the CourtHowry, J.
This controversy had its origin in a treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw Nation, May 24, 1834, known as the treaty of Washington (7 Stats., 450) amenda-tory of a treaty of October 20, 1832 (Ibid., 382), known as the treaty of Pontotock. The Chickasaws by the original treaty ceded to the United States all their lands east of the Mississippi River, including that upon which they lived. Title became vested in the United States, reserving to each family in the Chickasaw Nation a temporary right of occupancy. When homes were found and the Chickasaws could remove to the West their…
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