Legal Opinion
Patterson v. Council of the Seneca Nation
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 20, 1927PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKellogg, J.
The question to be determined is whether an alternative order of mandamus, issued out of the Supreme Court of the State of New York to the Council of the Seneca Nation of American Indians, requiring it to enroll the petitioner as a member of the Seneca Nation and to accord him all personal and property rights of a member of such Nation, was within the jurisdiction of the court so issuing it.
The petition alleges that the petitioner is of full age; that he resides on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in Erie county, New York; that he is the son of Nathaniel C. Patterson, deceased, a duly…
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