Whitmire v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following is the motion of the claimants on which this decision is based: Now comes the claimants, the freedmen of the Cherokee Nation, and by Robert H. Kern, their attorney of record, and suggesting the death of Moses Whitmire, their trustee in this behalf, move the court to appoint as their trustee in his place and stead, Jacob B. Wilson, one of their number, selected by them for that purpose; and claimants further move the court…
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following is the motion of the claimants on which this decision is based: Now comes the claimants, the freedmen of the Cherokee Nation, and by Robert H. Kern, their attorney of record, and suggesting the death of Moses Whitmire, their trustee in this behalf, move the court to appoint as their trustee in his place and stead, Jacob B. Wilson, one of their number, selected by them for that purpose; and claimants further move the court for an order granting them leave to file in this cause the supplemental petition which accompanies this motion. The “…
1Opinion of the CourtHo why, J.
Petitioners, who are said to number 1,200, are persons of color otherwise known as “ freedmen ” and claiming rights under a treaty proclaimed August 11, 1866 (14 Stat., 799), between the Cherokee Nation and the United States. By an act approved October 1,1890 (26 Stat., 636), full jurisdiction was conferred upon this court, subject to appeal,
“to hear and-determine the just rights in law or in equity of * * * the Cherokee freedmen, who are settled and located in the Cherokee Nation under the provisions and stipulations of article 9 of the aforesaid treaty of 1866, in respect to the…
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