Choctaw Nation v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM "TIE COURT OF CLAIMS. Tie following is the case as stated by the court: There are-two appeals in this case, one by the Choctaw Nation, and the other by the United States, from a judgment rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of the former for the sum of $408,120.32. Jurisdiction of the cause was conferred -upon that court by the provisions of an act of Congress approved March 3, 1881, 21 Stat. 504, entitled “ An act for the •ascertainment of the amount due…
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APPEALS PROM "TIE COURT OF CLAIMS. Tie following is the case as stated by the court: There are-two appeals in this case, one by the Choctaw Nation, and the other by the United States, from a judgment rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of the former for the sum of $408,120.32. Jurisdiction of the cause was conferred -upon that court by the provisions of an act of Congress approved March 3, 1881, 21 Stat. 504, entitled “ An act for the •ascertainment of the amount due the Choctaw Nation,” as follows: “That the Court of' Claims is hereby authorized to take jurisdiction of and try ail…
1Opinion of the Court
MR. JustiCE Matthews,
after stating the case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the Court.
The general purpose of this suit is a judicial settlement ■ of all existing controversies between the Choctaw Nation and the United States. The specific claims of the Choctaw Nation are stated in the petition in the alternative. It is claimed, in the first. instance, that the award of the Senate, and the amount found due as a balance upon the account between tbe parties, stated upon the principles of that award, should either be enforced as a finality by the judgment ‘of the court in the present…
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