Legal Opinion
Irene Mitchell Pallin v. United States of America and Edward Elmer Mitchell, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 30, 1974No. 71-1624PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURPHY, District Judge.
Defendant-appellant, Edward Mitchell, Jr., and his sister, plaintiff-appellee, Irene Mitchell Pallin, are both enrolled Indians of the Yurok Tribe. Both sought thé same tract of land as an Indian allotment. The tract, 160 acres of the public domain located north of Hoopa in Humboldt County, California, 1 was originally patented in 1907 to Nancy Burrill, grandmother of Edward and Irene. Since Nancy Burrill lived on land previously allotted to her on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, she allowed her son, Edward Mitchell, Sr., father of the litigants, to…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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3Cited by8 opinions
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