Legal Opinion

Ewert v. Bluejacket

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 15, 1922No. 173, 186PublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clarke

We have here cross appeals in a suit to have declared invalid a deed to Paul A. Ewert for restricted lands inherited by the widow and adult and minor heirs of Charles Bluejacket, a full-blood Quapaw Indian, and for an accounting for rents and royalties derived from such lands.

On October 23, 1908, Ewert was appointed a special assistant-to the Attorney General of .the United States to “ assist in the institution and prosecution of suits to set aside deeds to certain allotments in the Quapaw Indian Agency,” and by the terms of his appointment his official residence was fixed at Miami, Oklahoma.…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. BoydSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
  2. Galliher v. CadwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  3. United States v. NobleSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
  4. Halstead v. GrinnanSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  5. Waskey v. HammerSupreme Court of the United States · 1912

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  4. Narragansett Tribe of Indians v. Southern Rhode Island Land Development Corp.District Court, D. Rhode Island · 1976
  5. Oneida Indian Nation of New York, Cross v. State of New York, Counties of Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oswego, Oneida, Onondaga, St. Lawrence and Tioga, Individually and as Class Representatives, Cross-Appellants. Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin and Oneida of the Thames Band, Plaintiffs- Cross-Appellees v. State of New York, Counties of Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, St. Lawrence and Tioga, New York, and Valentine Ryan, New York Electric & Gas Corp., St. Regis Paper Co., and Georgia Pacific Corp., Individually and as Class Representatives, Cross-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1982

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