Cherokee Nation v. United States

The plaintiff’s action is shown by the petition to be based' upon an act of Congress which was approved March 19, , 1924 (43 Stat. 27), authorizing a suit to be begun against the United States in this court. This act (omitting the title and the last four sections thereof which are not material to the decision of this case) reads as follows:

“Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Represented ■ fives of the United States of America in Gongress assembled,. That jurisdiction be, and is hereby, conferred upon the Court of Claims, notwithstanding the lapse of time or statutes of limitation, to…