Young v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Oklahoma
Appeal from the District Court of Canadian County, Territory of Oklahoma. Action by Rebecca Young and others against the United States. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
COTTERAL, District Judge.
This case was commenced in the district court of Canadian county, in the territory of Oklahoma, by several plaintiffs, who by their joint petition against the United States as sole defendant sought to establish their alleged rights as Caddo Indians to allotments of land in the reservation of the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians, in the territory, as provided by the treaty with them, which was ratified by Act Cong. March 2, 1895, c. 188, 28 Stat. 895. The plaintiffs brought the suit jointly, some of them for themselves and their children and others for…
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