Choctaw Nation v. United States

LITTLETON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Indian Claims Commission dismissing appellant’s petition. Appellant seeks judgment against the United States in the amount of $753,609.41, which sum was disbursed by appellee during the period from July 1, 1898, to June 30, 1929, from appellant's funds then in the custody of appellee, for expenses incur red by appellee on behalf of the Choctaw Tribe incident to carrying out the provisions of the Atoka Agreement, 30 Stat. 495, and the Supplemental Agreement, 32 Stat. 641. The Indian Claims Commission held that the claim asserted (See…