Bunch v. Cole
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR AND CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME' COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA. ■ Error to a judgment of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma which reversed a judgment recovered by the present plaintiff in error in a trial court,.in his action to recover for wrongful use and occupation of his allotted land.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This was an action by an Indian allottee to recover for a wrongful occupáncy and use of his land.
The plaintiff was an adult Cherokee Indian of the full blood, enrolled and recognized as a member of the tribe and still a ward of the United States. The land was an eighty-acre tract which had been allotted to him in the division of the tribal lands, — forty acres as a homestead and the remainder as surplus land. He had full title, but his power to alien or lease was subject to restrictions imposed by Congress for his protection. , By three successive instruments, each given for a cash rental of…
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