Francis v. Francis
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP MICHIGAN. The facts are stated in the opinion. Indians being regarded as the wards of the .Government should be dealt with in the utmost good faith as respects their rights under treaties, which should be construed, not according to the technical meaning of the words, but .in the sense in which they would naturally be understood by the' Indians.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP MICHIGAN. The facts are stated in the opinion. Indians being regarded as the wards of the .Government should be dealt with in the utmost good faith as respects their rights under treaties, which should be construed, not according to the technical meaning of the words, but .in the sense in which they would naturally be understood by the' Indians. Worcester v. Georgia, 6 Pet. 515; The Kansas Indians, 5 Wall. 737, 760; Choctaxo Nation v. United States, 119 U. S. 1, 27, 28; Jones v. Meehan, 175 U. S. 10. The policy of the Government has béen to permit…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This action of ejectment was brought to recover the possession of certain lands in Bay County, Michigan, which the plaintiff, Ann Francis, claims as tenant for her own life, and which are thus described in the declaration: “The east half, the Bokowtonden reserve, excepting land heretofore owned and occupied by F. A. Kaiser, and ten acres heretofore owned and occupied-'by Edward McGuiness, being in Township Fourteen, north range four east, and being a part of the Bokow-tonden Reserve, conveyed by the United States to the children of Bokowtonden and their héirs, by patent, dated November sixth,…
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