Graham v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe motion for a new trial of tbis cause was overruled, tbe court sustaining tbe objection stated in tbe 'motion, but permitting claimant to amend bis pleadings, and itself amending tbe judgment so as to name tbe Minneconjou Sioux as defendants.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe motion for a new trial of tbis cause was overruled, tbe court sustaining tbe objection stated in tbe 'motion, but permitting claimant to amend bis pleadings, and itself amending tbe judgment so as to name tbe Minneconjou Sioux as defendants. Tbe defendants then filed a.petition for a rebearing upon tbe question of tbe right to amend by tbe insertion of tbe names of new defendants after tbe period bad expired in wbicb suits of tbis character could be instituted. Tbis motion of tbe defendants was dismissed without an additional opinion. Tbe stipulation…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
In the original petition filed herein April 14, 1891, it is averred, among other things, in substance, that on the 9th of September, 1872, property of the value of $1,000, belonging ■to the claimant, a citizen of the United States, was taken by Indians belonging to the Sioux tribe or nation, then in amity with the United States; and that a claim for said qiroperty, with evidence therein, was presented to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and thereafter, January 5, 1888, reported to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior as allowed in the sum of $750.
To the petition thus filed the…
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