Legal Opinion
United States v. Anglin & Stevenson
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 6, 1944No. 2881PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURRAH, Circuit Judge.
By this appeal the United States challenges the power and authority of the trial court to award attorneys’ fees and expenses to attorneys for certain Indian wards of the United States, who were the successful claimants in this proceedings to determine heirship and settle the Estate of Jackson Barnett, a full-blood restricted Creek Indian. The fees and expenses awarded were ordered paid proportionately out of the distributive share of each of the successful Indian heirs in accordance with the court’s judgment. The funds recovered by the litigation, as the distributive…
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