McLish v. Roff
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE UNITED STATES COURT FOR THE INDIAN TERRITORY. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamar
This was a suit brought in the United States Court for the Indian Territory, Third Judicial Division, by A. B. Boff and W. B. "Watkins against Bichard McLish, for the recovery of about 640 acres of land situated in the Chickasaw Nation, and belonging to said tribe. In their amended complaint, they alleged that the defendant, Biehard McLish, is a member of the tribe of Chickasaw Indians by blood ; that both plaintiffs, Boff and Watkins, were born in the United States, and are now, and always have been, citizens of the United States, neither of them ever having renounced their allegiance to the…
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