Roy v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The place where the depredation was committed was in the State of Nebraska and within the Sioux Indian country, and was described and defined in the fifth article of the treaty of Fort Laramie of September 17, 1851. It was also within the “ unceded Indian territory ” reserved by the sixteenth article of the treaty of April 29, 1868. It was at the time of the depredation in…
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The place where the depredation was committed was in the State of Nebraska and within the Sioux Indian country, and was described and defined in the fifth article of the treaty of Fort Laramie of September 17, 1851. It was also within the “ unceded Indian territory ” reserved by the sixteenth article of the treaty of April 29, 1868. It was at the time of the depredation in the possession and-occupancy of the Sioux Indians. II. The claimant did not have the permission of the Sioux Indians,…
1Opinion of the CourtBaeNey, J.
This is a claim'for the destruction of hay by the defendant Sioux Indians on the 20th day of August, 1875. The place of the depredation was a few miles from the Red Cloud Agency in Nebraska, located about 5 miles from Dakota on the north and the same distance from Wyoming on’the west. The claim was never presented to the Interior Department nor to Congress nor to any officer or agent of the Govern*179ment. The court having decided that the depredation was committed upon Indian lands, thus depriving the court of jurisdiction, no finding as to the merits has been made.
It has been the uniform…
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