United States Ex Rel. Knight v. Lane
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA,. The facts, which involve the construction of the act of Congress allotting Cherokee, lands in severalty and the power of the Secretary of the Interior thereunder to determine contests and to reconsider his decisions thereon, aré stated in the opinion.
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IN ERROR TO THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA,. The facts, which involve the construction of the act of Congress allotting Cherokee, lands in severalty and the power of the Secretary of the Interior thereunder to determine contests and to reconsider his decisions thereon, aré stated in the opinion. The execution by the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of the patent in favor of Knight, under the circumstances of this case, rendered the issuance of an allotment certificate unnecessary. The patent itself contained within its four corners all pertinent recitals of such a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanteb
This writ of error brings up for review, a judgment of the Court of. Appeals of the District of Columbia (35 App. D. C. 429) affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District refusing a writ of mandamus commanding the Secretary of the Interior to deliver to the relator a patent for a tract of land claimed by the latter as a Cherokee allotment. The facts upon which the decision must turn are these:
On August 21, 1907, a parcel of allottable land containing 50 acres, in the Cherokee Nation, was selected as an allotment for Eva Waters, a minor Cherokee child belonging to the class whose…
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