Scott v. Hamner

THAYER, Circuit Judge.

In these cases writs of error were not allowed by the United States court in the Indian Territory until after March 1, 1895, when an act entitled “An act to provide for the appointment of additional judges of the United Stales court in the Indian Territory and for other purposes” (28 Stat. 695, c. 145) took effect. The necessary operation of section 11 of that act was to deprive this court, from and after March 1, 1895, of the power to entertain writs of error and appeals to review judgments and decrees of the United States court in the Indian Territory, which power was…