Briggs v. Sample

The complainants file their bill in equity to quiet title to 40 acres of land in Atchison county, Kan., alleging title and possession in themselves, and further alleging that the action involves a construction of a treaty of the United States with the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, and that the defendants set up some claim to said property which constitutes a cloud upon complainants’ title, and pray to-have the title quieted, and for an injunction against defendants from interfering with complainants’ possession. The facts are briefly these: The land was allotted to Meshem-a-wa, (Peter Cadue,) a…