Peters v. Tallchief
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Linnie L. Peters, petitioner in her own behalf, etc. from á judgment of the County Court of Niagara county in favor ' of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of said county. on the 6tli day of March, 1907, reversing a final order of a justice of the peace of the town of Lewiston, granted in summary proceedings, which awarded the possession of certain premises to the petitioner.
1Opinion of the Court
Kruse, J.:
The proceeding was brought to recover the possession of certain lands situate on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation, in the town, of Lewiston, Niagara county, consisting of about twenty-thrée acres of farm land, with buildings thereon, and occupied for . .many years by Jeremiah Peters, a Tuscarora Indian,' up to tlie time of his death in March, 1900. Both the petitioner and the defendant are Tuscarora Indians; the defendant is his. daughter and the. petitioner is his daughter-in-law. , -
No evidence was given on behalf of the defendant, but she contended and now insists that the*…
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