United States v. Johnson

FRANKLIN E. KENNAMER, District Judge.

The purpose of this action is the establishment of priority of a debt alleged to be due the United States, and the enjoining of the disbursing of funds of a failed bank to other creditors. The amended complaint is referred to in a memorandum filed in this case, and reported in United States v. Barnett (D. C.) 7 F. Supp. 573.

The facts are that a full-blood Osage allottee, Esther Berry Smith, died intestate, leaving funds to her credit in the Osage Indian Agency, in the amount of $117,804.-98, which sum was paid to S. S. Mathis, the duly appointed…