Mahnomen County v. United States

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by the United States to carry out a trust obligation undertaken by it in respect to a tract of land which it allotted in severalty and conveyed by trust patent to Isabelle Garden, who is an adult female mixed-blood Chippewa Indian of the White Earth Reservation, in Mahnomen County, Minnesota. One of the obligations assumed by the United States under the terms of its trust was that it would tarn over the land to the Indian at the termination of the twenty-five year trust period “free of all charge or incumbrance”, and the gist of the complaint…