Darks v. Ickes

This appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of the Interior to pay over certain funds in his possession, accumulated from oil leases on the restricted land of Thomas Long, a full-blood Creek Indian.

Long died in 1932, leaving a will in which his estate was devised to his wife and children, full-blood Indians of the Creek Tribe, one of the Five Civilized Tribes, in Oklahoma. The Secretary contests the right of the administrator of Long to these funds on tlie ground that they are properly…