Washburn v. Parker

KNIGHT, District Judge.

This is an action in equity to restrain the Peacemakers’ Court of the Seneca Nation of Indians on the Cattaraugus Reservation in the matter of the partition of certain real estate. The question of title in the lands in question has been under consideration by various courts over a period of more than twenty years. Through proceedings in the Peacemakers’ Court of the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, on June 24, 1912, a judgment was rendered in an action brought by the defendant herein, Alice Parker, against Glen-nie Jimeson and others, directing the sale of the lands…