Dixon v. Cox
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska; Joseph W. Woodrough, Judge. Suit by Roth Dixon and another against Jesse H. Cox and others. From a decree of dismissal, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal challenges a decree of dismissal of the complaint by the plaintiffs, Roth Dixon and Frank Dick, to avoid an adjudication of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of Congress of June 25, 1910, 36 Stat. 855; that the allotment of the 160 acres in controversy to Joseph Cox, an Indian of the Omaha Tribe, under the Act of August 7, 1882, 22 Stat. 341, descended, subject to the dower of Dora Cline Cox, to Jesse H. Cox'; and to obtain a decree that the defendants, who claim under that decision and under a patent founded thereon, issued February 2, 1918, to…
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