Tapp v. Stuart

FRANKLIN E. KENNAMER, District Judge.

Many of the facts material to the decision of this ease on the merits are stated in Tapp v. Stuart (D. C.) 6 F. Supp. 577.

For more than twenty years prior to the commencement of this action, the Secretary of the Interior construed the pertinent acts of Congress as requiring that the administrator or executor of a deceased Osage Indian should be paid all trust funds subsequently accruing to the credit of the head-rights owned by such Indian at the time of his death. May 25,1915, the Solicitor of the Interior Department made a formal ruling that. trust funds…