United States v. Bowling
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This was an action by the United States, to recover the possession of a tract of land in Oklahoma, with damages for its detention and use by the defendants for several years. The trial resulted in a judgment for the defendants, which the Circuit Court of Appeals'affirmed. 261 Fed. Rep. 657.
The land was allotted and patented under the Act of Márch 2,1889, c. 422,25 Stat. 1013, to Pe-te-lon-o-zah, or William Wea, a member of the confederated Wea, Peoria, Kaskaskia and Piankeshaw tribes of Indians, as his distributive share of the tribal, lands. The patent was dated April 8, 1890, conveyed a fee…
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