Frazier v. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, tried before O. II. Allen, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1907, of the Superior Court of SwaiN County. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCt.aR.tt, C. J.
Action for recovery of land of tbe defendant, the “Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.” Besides other claim of title (the controversy ns to which we do not find it necessary to consider), the defendant set np a deed from William Johnson, 9 October, 1876, to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for the Qualla boundary of land, which, it is admitted, covers the land in controversy, which deed was executed in pursuance of a decree of the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of North Carolina, entered at November Term, 1874, in a cause therein pending, entitled “Eastern Band of…
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