Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Besaw v. Work
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 1, 1925No. 4242PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
This appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, dismissing appellant’s petition for a writ of mandamus to require the Secretary of the Interior to pay to relator his per capita interest in certain funds belonging to and being distributed to the Menominee Indians in the state of Wisconsin.
Relator, Besaw, admitted to be a Menominee Indian of mixed blood, was bom May 1, 1842, among the Menominee Indians at Fox river, in what is now the state of Wisconsin. His father was a white man. His mother was a Menominee Indian woman of mixed…
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