La Roque v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of the Nelson Act of 1889 and an allotment ’to a Chippewa Indian in the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devantee
This is a' suit to cancel a so-called trust patent for an allotment in the Whi4 Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota on the ground that the allotment was made inadvertently and in contravention of the act of January 14, 1889, c. 24, 25 Stat. 642, known as the Nelson Act. In the Circuit Court there was a decree dismissing the bill upon the merits and this was reversed by the Circuit Court of Appeals with instructions to enter a decree according to the prayer of the bill subject to a qualification not here material. 198 Fed. Rep. 645.
The facts are not in dispute and are these: Vincent La…
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