United States v. W. T. Mason Lumber Co.

NEWMAN, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity, brought by the plaintiffs against the defendants to enjoin the latter from cutting and removing timber from a certain large tract of land, being a part of the Cathcart tract and within the Qualla boundary, the timber on which was the subject of an agreement between the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and David L. Boyd, on the .‘¿Oth of September, 1893. By transfer from Boyd, and intermediate conveyances, all the rights Boyd acquired under the contract are in the W. T. Mason Dumber Company, the defendants here. The agreement is as follows;

“State…