United States ex rel. Sykes v. Lane
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Mandamus proceeding by the United States of America, on the relation'of C. F. Sykes, against Franklin K. Fane, Secretary of the Interior. From a judgment denying the writ, relator appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SMYTH, Chief Justice.
This case involves the right of the relator, Sykes, to a mandamus against the Secretary of the Interior, requiring him to deliver to Sykes a deed for land allotted to Dwight Butter, a full-blood Choctaw Indian, in distribution of the tribal property. Congress placed certain restrictions upon the alienation of such land, but by Act May 27, 1908, c. 199, 35 Stat. 311, the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to remove them “under such rules and regulations concerning terms of sale and disposal of the proceeds for the benefit of the respective Indians as he may…
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