Silverheels v. Maybee

This is a suit in equity founded on section 52 of the Indian Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 26) , to enforce a judgment rendered by the Peacemakers’ Court of the Allegany Reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians on the 18th day of March, 1895, in an action duly instituted in said court by the plaintiff herein against Emeline Jimeson, the predecessor in title of the defendants to the lands to which the judgment relates. Both parties to the action in the Peacemakers’ Court were Seneca Indians and they resided on the Allegany Indian Reservation in the county of Cattaraugus. The parties to this…