Salois v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. Tbe claimant is a citizen of tbe United States and was at tbe time of tbe depredations hereinafter referred to, and tbe depredations were' without just cause or provocation on the part ot' the claimant or his agent in charge of the property, which has never been returned or paid for. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. Tbe claimant is a citizen of tbe United States and was at tbe time of tbe depredations hereinafter referred to, and tbe depredations were' without just cause or provocation on the part ot' the claimant or his agent in charge of the property, which has never been returned or paid for. II. In July, IS76, on Weasel Greek, near Fort Eobinson, certain Indians took and destroyed property belonging to the claimant of the aggregate value of $800. The tribe or baud to which said depredating Indians…
1Opinion of the Court
Nott, Gh. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
In 1876 there was on the reservation near Fort Robinson a large body of Indians made up of different tribes and bands. Depredations were committed by individual members of this body, but the body as a whole, if not the tribes and bands which were parts of it, was virtually in amity with the United States. No such condition of affairs existed as would warrant *332one in saying that every Indian was the enemy of every white man and every white man the enemy of every Indian. If the settlers, whose property was taken or destroyed, had organized and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Salois v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1896