Lowe v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. At the time of the depredations hereinafter stated the claimant was a citizen of the United States. II.
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. At the time of the depredations hereinafter stated the claimant was a citizen of the United States. II. On the 25th of September, 1870, and in the month of November, 1870, in the county of McMullen, State of Texas, Indians belonging to the Kickapoo tribe of Indians took and drove away property of the kind and characted described in the petition, the property of claimant, which was reasonably worth at the time the sum of $5,320. Said property was taken, as aforesaid, without just cause or…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldon, J.
This is a suit under what is known as the Indian depredation act (26 Stat. L., 851), and in the petition it is alleged that on September 25, 1870, the defendant Indians took and drove away 97 horses belonging to the claimant, and that on the-da.y of November, 1870, the same Indians took and drove away 125 horses belonging to the claimant, aggregating-in value the sum of $11,100. The findings show that at the times stated in the petition the Indians took from claimant horses aggregating in value the sum of $5,320.
There can be no serious dispute as to the amity of the Indians at the time of…
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