Legal Opinion
United States v. Douglas
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 20, 1911No. 3,487PublishedCited by 9 opinions
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of South Dakota. Action by the United States against Jennie R. Douglas. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
This action was brought by the United States to recover a penalty of $5,000 under section 2078 of the Revised Statutes, which reads as follows:
“No person employed in Indian affairs shall have any interest or concern in any trade with the Indians, except for, and on account of, the United States; and any person offending herein, shall be liable to a penalty of five thousand dollars, and shall be removed from his office.”
The facts are not in dispute. The defendant is one-sixteenth Sioux Indian, and during all times here material was a member of the Crow Creek band of…
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