Smith v. Bonifer
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon
In Equity. Suit by Indians to recover lands allotted to another. On demurrer to bill.
1Opinion of the Court
BELLINGER, District Judge.
Under the act of Congress of March 3, 1886, 23 Stat. 341, providing for allotment of lands of the Umatilla Indian reservation to Indians residing thereon, the plaintiff Philomme Smith, a full-blooded Indian woman, and a member of the Walla Walla tribe of Indians, residing on such reservation with her family, made, as the head of such family, selections of lands subject to allotment for her children as follows: For George Smith, the N. E. % of N. W. Ya of section 29; for Sophia Smith, the S. E. Y °f N. W. Y of section 29; for Maggie Smith, the N. W. Ya of N. E. Ya of…
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- United States v. FairbanksCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
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