Pam-To-Pee v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OE CLAIMS. On March 19, 1890, Congress passed an act, 26 Stat. 24, giving to the Court of Claims jurisdiction to try all questions arising out of treaty stipulations between the United States and the Pottawatomie Indians of Michigan and Indiana, unembarrassed by reason of any estoppel supposed to arise from the joint resolution of Congress, approved April 18, 1866, or a receipt in full given by certain Pottawatomie Indians under the provisions of that…
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OE CLAIMS. On March 19, 1890, Congress passed an act, 26 Stat. 24, giving to the Court of Claims jurisdiction to try all questions arising out of treaty stipulations between the United States and the Pottawatomie Indians of Michigan and Indiana, unembarrassed by reason of any estoppel supposed to arise from the joint resolution of Congress, approved April 18, 1866, or a receipt in full given by certain Pottawatomie Indians under the provisions of that resolution. Under the authority of this act two petitions were filed in the Court of Claims, one on April 14, 1890, in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
There is an apparent hardship in the result of this litigation, but one which we are constrained to believe the plaintiffs are chiefly responsible for, and which can be relieved only by the action of Congress. Two sets of claimants appeared in the former suits, each represented by separate counsel, and after a consolidation the litigation proceeded only so far as to determine the fact of the liability of the government and the extent of that liability, leaving undetermined the individuals entitled to share in the amount awarded against the government or the proper basis of distribution…
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