Mt. Pleasant v. Gansworth

All of the parties are residents on the Tuscarora Indian reservation, situated in the town of Lewiston, Niagara county, N. Y.; all are Indians and all are members of the Tuscarora tribe, except the defendant Willard Gansworth, who is a member of the Onondaga tribe. The plaintiffs seek in this action to gain possession, together with damages for withholding the same, of certain Tuscarora Indian national lands, situate upon such reservation, which had been, prior to August 7, 1920, duly allotted to one Emeline Garlow and leased by her to the defendant Nellie Gansworth, who was on that date in…