Logan v. United States

"VAUGHT, District Judge.

This suit was brought by the United States, at the request of the Secretary of the Interior, for and on behalf of the Secretary, for and in its own behalf, and for and on behalf of Rhoda Wheeler Ridge, a full-blood restricted Osage Indian, and ward of the plaintiff, to recover excess payments under the Act of March 3, 1921, § 4 (41 Stat. 1250) that came into the hands of Carl T. Matthews, guardian of said Indian. The Supreme Court in 1924 held in Work v. United States ex rel. Lynn, 266 U. S. 161, 45 S. Ct. 39, 69 L. Ed. 223, that said section 4 limited the amounts to…