People ex rel. Jamerson v. John

This proceeding is instituted for the purpose of obtaining from this court a writ of prohibition restraining the defendants, who. constitute the Peacemakers’ Court of the Seneca Nation of Indians of the Cattaraugus Reservation, from proceeding in a certain action commenced in said Peacemakers’ Court against the relators.

It appears from the petition and return that the relators and defendants are all members of the Seneca *419Nation of Indians residing on the Cattaraugus Reservation in this state. That the Iroquois Agricultural Society is a corporation created by chapter 434 of the Laws of New…