Morrow v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota; Page Morris, Judge. Suit by the United States against W. J. Morrow, as County Auditor of Becker County, Minnesota, and others. From a decree in favor of the government, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, Circuit Judge.
Suit by the United S'tates as trustee of lands for a mixed-blood Chippewa Indian against certain officials of Becker comity, Minn., to restrain collection of tax levied upon land in the White Earth Reservation allotted and trust patented under the Nelson Act.
The case is submitted upon a stipulation of facts, the essential portions of which are that:
“The allottee o£ the tract of lands therein described is. and at the time of ¡he commencement of this action was, an adult mixed-blood Cliippowa Indian residing upon the White Earth Reservation, and that he has never incumbered…
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