Laughton v. Nadeau

FOSTER, District Judge.

The complainant, David Laughton, filed this bill October 2, 2894, to establish and quiet his title to the following lands, to wit: Tbe S. of the lsT. E. of section 28, township 10, range 13 E. of the sixth P. M. in Shawnee county, Kan., containing 80 acres. Complainant was, in 1862, at the date of the ratification of the treaty between the United States and the Pottawatomie Indians (12 Stat. 1191), a member of that tribe, and was about nine years of age at that time. He had' no father -living, and was making his home with the defendant Eli G. Nadeau, who had married his…