Leecy v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. Suit by Jane I,cecy against the United States to recover an additional allotment in the White Earth reservation. From a judgment overruling plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and dismissing the bill, she appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
The complainant, an Indian, has all .her life been a member of the baud of Chippewa of the Mississippi and has all her time resided on the White Earth Indian reservation in Minnesota as created by the treaty proclaimed April 18, 1867. She received an allotment of 80 acres upon this reservation. There is no dispute that she was entitled to an additional allotment of 80 acres under the act to provide allotments to Indians on the White Earth reservation in Minnesota of April 28, 1904. 33 Stat. S39, c. 1786. In 1907 she selected and applied for the E. y2 of the N. W. % of…
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