Oakes v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
By their suit commenced and prosecuted under Act Feb. 6, 1901, c. 217, 31 Stat. 760, the appellants asserted that they were entitled to have allotted to them in severalty, under Act Jan. 14, 1889, c. 21, 25 Stat. 642, certain specified lands in the White Earth Indian reservation in Minnesota, that their *306applications- for such allotments had been unlawfully denied by the officers charged with the allotment of the lands in that reservation, and therefore that they were entitled to a decree recognizing and enforcing their rights to such allotments. Upon the final…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Sully v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. South Dakota · 1912
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