United States v. First Nat. Bank

RUDKIN, District Judge.

On the 11th day of May, 1921, John Smith, an Indian allottee on the Yakima Indian Reservation, executed a mortgage on the crops of wheat and alfalfa then growing, or to be grown during the year 1921, on certain Indian allotments held in trust by the United States for the use and benefit of the allottees, or their heirs, under the General Allotment Act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388 [Comp. St. § 4195 et seq.]). The mortgage was executed and delivered to one Nelson to secure the payment of a promissory note in the sum of $2,115, the purchase price of an automobile.…