Parr v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon
On Motion to Strike Further and Separate Answers. On about April 12, 1803, there was allotted to Maggie Damain, a mixed-blood Indian woman, who was at the time the wife of John Damain, the northeast quarter of section 20, township 3 north, range 34 east of the Willamette Meridian, situated within the Umatilla Indian reservation.
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On Motion to Strike Further and Separate Answers. On about April 12, 1803, there was allotted to Maggie Damain, a mixed-blood Indian woman, who was at the time the wife of John Damain, the northeast quarter of section 20, township 3 north, range 34 east of the Willamette Meridian, situated within the Umatilla Indian reservation. Subsequently the Damains adopted Ellen Rainville, an Indian child, through proceedings duly had and instituted in the county court for Umatilla county, state of Oregon, who later married Ered Parr. About June 27, 1894, Maggie Damain died intestate, leaving as her…
1Opinion of the CourtWolverton, District Judge
(after stating the facts). The first question I will consider is whether the decree given and rendered in the stale court operates as an estoppel to the present suit. Since this case was argued, the cause of William McKay (substituted for Mary Kalyton) et al., Plaintiffs in Error v. Agnes Kalyton, by Houise Kalyton, her Guardian ad litem, 27 Sup. Ct. 376, 51 L. Ed.-, has been decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, and it was there considered that the state court is without jurisdiction to determine the heirship, under Act March 3, 1885, c. 319, 23 Slat. 370, under *464which the…
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