Ayres v. United States

This is a proceeding to recover from the defendants the value of certain property which is alleged to have been taken from the claimant on the 1st day of November, 1894, in the State of Washington, by the defendant Indians.

The property consisted of 360 logs, alleged to be worth the sum of 86.40 per log, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $1,881.60. The logs had been drifted by high water onto the reservation of the Indians, and because of that a number of the Indians claimed salvage on them.

*27It is in substance averred that, with the consent of the agent of the Indians, the claimant…