Marks v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. ' On July 8,1891, appellants, as claimants, filed their petition in the Court of Claims under the act of March 3, 1891, c. 538, 26 Stat. 851, to recover the sum-of eleven thousand eight hundred dollars, the value of certain personal property charged to have been taken and destroyed by the Bannock.and Piute Indians during the month of June, 1818, in Happy Talley, in the State of Oregon.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. ' On July 8,1891, appellants, as claimants, filed their petition in the Court of Claims under the act of March 3, 1891, c. 538, 26 Stat. 851, to recover the sum-of eleven thousand eight hundred dollars, the value of certain personal property charged to have been taken and destroyed by the Bannock.and Piute Indians during the month of June, 1818, in Happy Talley, in the State of Oregon. Subsequently they filed an amended petition. ' In that it was alleged that the Bannock and the Piute Indians were “in amity with the United States” at the time of the taking and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
This case, like that of Johnson v. United States, 160 U. S. 546, recently decided, involves a, construction of the Indian Depredation Act of March 3, 1891. The particular language to be considered is that found in the first clause of the act, which grants to the Court of Claims jurisdiction over claims for property “ destroyed by Indians belonging to any band, tribe, or nation, in amity with the United States.” The seventh finding negatives the existence of amity, and if this stood alone there would be no room for discussion. But, as appears from its terms, it is based upon a series of facts…
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