Rider v. LaClair
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Yakima county, Preble, J., entered April 30, 1913, in favor of the defendant, after a hearing before the court upon an agreed statement of facts, in an action on contracts.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Plaintiff sets up sis separate causes of action, all of which involve the validity of contracts made by a Yakima Indian who lives in the Yakima Indian Reservation. on patented allotted land. The land is patented under certain restrictions, and is held in trust by the government. The Indian defendant has not severed his tribal relations.
In the first cause of action, plaintiff seeks to foreclose a chattel mortgage on certain cattle which were given to defendant for his use and subsistence by the United States government, between one and two years prior to the execu*490tion of the mortgage, during…
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