Summers v. Spybuck
Supreme Court of Kansas
The facts of the case wore argreed on as follows: Thai John Pipe, at the date of the ratification of the Wyandotte treaty, January 31st, 1855, was a member of the Wyandotte nation of Indians; was the head of a family, consisting of himself, his wife, Mary Pipe, and two children by a former wife, named Maria Pipe and Winfield Pipe; that said Mary Pipe was the daughter of George Spybuck, and sister of James Spybuck, the plaintiff, and died childless, in the year 1857, at…
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The facts of the case wore argreed on as follows: Thai John Pipe, at the date of the ratification of the Wyandotte treaty, January 31st, 1855, was a member of the Wyandotte nation of Indians; was the head of a family, consisting of himself, his wife, Mary Pipe, and two children by a former wife, named Maria Pipe and Winfield Pipe; that said Mary Pipe was the daughter of George Spybuck, and sister of James Spybuck, the plaintiff, and died childless, in the year 1857, at Wyandotte, in Kansas; that said John Pipe was placed on the competent list of Wyondotte Indians by the three commissioners…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cobb, C. J.
The judgment of the court below was for the partition of land which, under the Wyandotte treaty of January 31st, 1855, was allotted and assigned to John Pipe by the commissioners appointed pursuant to article *413third of that treaty, he being a member of that tribe placed in the competent class by said commissioners, and the head of a family, consisting of himself, Mary Pipe, his wife, and Maria and Winfield Pipe, his minor children by a former wife.
He had received a patent for the land so assigned purporting to convey it all to him, pursuant to the treaty, in fee simple…
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