Comm'rs of Miami Co. v. Brackenridge
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Miami District Court. Injunction, brought by Brackenridge against the Board of Comm’rs of Miami Co., Geo. W. Warren, as county clerk, and Wm. Crowed, as county treasurer, and D. Coonrod. The real question was, whether the lands of Brackenridge, being part of the Miami Indian lands, reserved by said Indians under and by virtue of the first article of the treaty between the Urdted States and said tribe of Indians, dated June 5, 1854, were taxable.
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Error from Miami District Court. Injunction, brought by Brackenridge against the Board of Comm’rs of Miami Co., Geo. W. Warren, as county clerk, and Wm. Crowed, as county treasurer, and D. Coonrod. The real question was, whether the lands of Brackenridge, being part of the Miami Indian lands, reserved by said Indians under and by virtue of the first article of the treaty between the Urdted States and said tribe of Indians, dated June 5, 1854, were taxable. The district court, at the December Term 1871, held that the lands were not taxable, and rendered a decree in favor of the plaintiff. The…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.;
The facts in this case are these: The defendant in error, being the owner in fee simple of a large tract of land situate in Miami county, purchased by him from reservees under the Treaty of June 5th, 1854, between the govern*115ment .of the United States and the Miami tribe of Indians, commenced his action in the district court for Miami county to restrain the defendants from levying or collecting taxes thereon, and to restrain the defendant Coonrod from receiving tax deeds from the county clerk, he the said Coonrod being the owner and holder of…
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