Legal Opinion
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians v. Cherokee Nation West
United States Court of Claims
Decided December 17, 1883No. 13606PublishedCited by 5 opinions
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The statute authorizing the Eastern Band of Cherokees to bring an action in this court, and.the verification of the petition, which the United States now move to dismiss, will he found in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Drake, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
By the deficiency appropriation act of March 3,1883 (22 Stat. L., 585, ch. 141), it was thus enacted:
“ The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is hereby authorized to institute a suit in the Court of Claims against the United States to determine the rights of the said band in and to the moneys, stocks, and bonds held by the United States in trust for the Cherokee Indians, arising out of the sales of lands lying west of the Mississippi River, and also in a certain other fund, commonly called the permanent annuity fund, to which suit the Cherokee…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Griffin v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1877
3Cited by5 opinions
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- Marzall, Commissioner of Patents v. Libby, McNeill & LibbyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
- Gamel v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1896