Non-She-Po v. Wa-Win-Ta

1. 'This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a complaint in a suit, under section 504 of the statute (Hill’s Ann. Laws), to determine an adverse claim to real estate. The parties are Indian women belonging to the Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes, respectively; both residing upon the Umatilla Reservation. The real property in controversy is a forty-acre tract of such reservation, in possession of the plaintiff, allotted, under the act of March 3, 1885 (23 Stat. c. 319), to one George Pearson, who died prior to the commencement of the suit, leaving no lineal descendants, and neither a wife nor…