Morris v. Hitchcock
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This is an equity suit begun in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by Edwin T. Morris and nine other' persons, all averred to be citizens of the United' States and not -Indians, against Ethan A. Hitchcock, as Secretary of the Department of the Interior, William .A.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This is an equity suit begun in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by Edwin T. Morris and nine other' persons, all averred to be citizens of the United' States and not -Indians, against Ethan A. Hitchcock, as Secretary of the Department of the Interior, William .A. Jones, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, J. George Wright, as Indian inspector, and J. Blair Shoenfelt, as United States Indian agent, resident at the city of Muscogee, in the Indian Territory. Certain of the complainants were averred to be residents either…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.’ Justice White,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the. opinion of the court.
We think the court below was right in holding that the first and second grounds of demurrer were not well taken, but do not think it necessary to review the subject, as the opinion which we have reached on the merits of the case will dispose of the entire controversy.
The act of Congress approved June "28, 1898, commonly known as. the Curtis Act, 30-Stat.- 495,.c. 517, under which the act of the Chickasaw Nation and regulations of. .the Secretary of the- Interior which are assailed were adopted, is…
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