Fairbanks v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS. PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which, involve the title to lands in the White Earth Indian Reservation, allotted under the Chippewa Indian treaty of 1867, and various, acts of Congress relating thereto, are stated in the ppinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The appellants were plaintiffs in the court below, and we shall so designate them.
The plaintiffs, one a minor (No. 112) and the other an adult (No. 113), residing on the White Barth Indian Reservation, brought these actions to determine their rights, respéctrvely, to allotments of land-under the provisions of a treaty with the Chippewa Indians proclaimed April 18, 1867, and- certain acts of. Congress relating, to such Indians.
The 'Government claims that two- minor children of Samuel'Mooers, also Chippewa. Indians, residing on the reservation with their father, have been justly allotted the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Garfield v. United States Ex Rel. GoldsbySupreme Court of the United States · 1908
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