Tyler v. Hand
Supreme Court of the United States
This cause was brought up, by writ of error, from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Mississippi. The circumstances were these. By the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, of the 27th Septem- ■ ber, 1830, the Choctaw nation ceded to the United States the entire country they owned and possessed east of the Mississippi ' River.
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This cause was brought up, by writ of error, from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Mississippi. The circumstances were these. By the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, of the 27th Septem- ■ ber, 1830, the Choctaw nation ceded to the United States the entire country they owned and possessed east of the Mississippi ' River. The nineteenth article (7 Stat. at Large, '336, 337), allowing certain reservations to be made, by its sixth section provides as follows: — “ Sixthly.'Likewise, children of the Choctaw nation, residing in the nation, who! have neither father…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
This suit is brought upon ten bonds payable to Martin Yan Burén, President of the United States, and his successors in office, for the use of the orphan children provided for in the nineteenth article of the treaty with the Choctaw Indians of September, 1830.
The principal and interest due upon t.he bonds are demanded, and the plaintiff in the action, John Tyler, sues as successor of Martin Van Burén and trustee for thé orphan children.
The defendants have demurred to the plaintiffs declaration, pursuing the usual form of a general demurrer, and have added thereto several special causes of…
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