Wallace v. Adams
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OR APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts are stated in the opinion. The citizenship court was not a court but a commission; it was but an arm of the administrative branch of the government and could not exercise judicial functions and therefore could not vacate a decree entered by the regularly established courts.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OR APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts are stated in the opinion. The citizenship court was not a court but a commission; it was but an arm of the administrative branch of the government and could not exercise judicial functions and therefore could not vacate a decree entered by the regularly established courts. The Circuit Court of Appeals having decided that the United States courts in the Indian Territory, and the Supreme Court, in determining questions of Indian citizenship were, themselves, not acting as courts, but practically as commissions, it must…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
delivered-the opinion of the court.
This was’ an action commenced in September, 1904, by Mrs. Ella Adams, for .’herself and her minor children, defend.ants in error, in-thé United States court for the Southern District of the Indian Territory, to recover possession of a tract of land in that. Territory.. Defendants answered, and upon trial judgment'was rendered in favor of plaintiffs. This judgment was sustained by the United States Court of Appeals of the Indian Territory, and on 'further appeaUreaffirme'd by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. 143 Fed. Rep. 716.
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