Hatch v. Luckman

We deem it proper to dispose of each of the above entitled actions in one opinion, as the main questions up for decision are the same in each case, and grow out of the same general transactions.

Thomas Skye was a Tonawanda Indian, living at the time of his death on the Tonawanda Reservation in this State, lie owned by allotment or Indian title four parcels of real estate on the Tonawanda Indian Reservation. Thomas Skye died on October 19, 1907; hut, on March 4, 1907, by formal deed of conveyance, he conveyed the lands in question to his son-in-law William Hatch. On the same day Hatch gave back…