Ortley v. Ross

Oldham, C.

This Avas an action instituted by the plaintiff in the district court for Knox county, Nebraska, for the purpose of quieting her title to an undivided one-half interest in a tract of land situated in that county, and for a partition of the land among the heirs of Daniel Paypav, deceased. Daniel Paypay Avas a Santee Sioux Indian, who had taken *340the land in controversy as an allotment, under the provisions of the treaty entered into with the Santee Sioux tribe by the United States on February 24, 1889, by which the United States agreed to give a patent to any male Indian of that tribe…