Choctaw Nation v. United States

Booth, Ghief Justice,

delivered the opinion of the court:

The special jurisdictional act appearing in Einding 1 discloses the nature of this case as one between the Choctaw Nation of Indians and the United States growing out of' an Indian treaty and an act of Congress.

The facts, not open to. dispute, disclose that on April 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 137), Charles F. Winton and others were by a special jurisdictional act authorized to sue in this court to recover upon the basis of quantum meruit for services rendered and expenses incurred “in the matter of the claims of the Mississippi Choctaws to…