Legal Opinion
United States v. Swain County
District Court, W.D. North Carolina
Decided December 17, 1930PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEBB, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity, brought by the United States against the sheriff, the county commissioners, and the register of deeds, of Swain county, N. C., to enjoin those duly constituted authorities from the collection of taxes assessed by them, for state and county purposes, against the lands of what is known as the “Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians,” for the year 1926. This Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is a corporation, organized by an act of the Legislature of North Carolina in the year 1889.
To satisfy the levy of taxes due upon the land owned by this corporation,…
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