Ickes v. United States ex rel. Perry

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is by the Secretary of the Interior from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in favor of the plaintiff below, directing the Secretary to turn over all the moneys, funds, and property belonging- to plaintiff now in his possession.

It appears that plaintiff is a son of Alice Perry, a half-blood member of the Chickasaw Indians, one of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma. She was duly enrolled and allotted land on which an oil lease was placed. Alice Perry died on June 22, 1923. At the date of her death there had accrued, in the…