Muskrat v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS EROM TOT COURT OP CLAIMS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality and conr struction of certain acts of Congress relating to the distribution and allotment of lands and funds of the Cherokee Indians, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
These cases arise under an act of Congress undertaking' to confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims, and upon this court on appeal, to determine the validity of certain acts of Congress hereinafter referred to.
Case No. 330 was brought by David Muskrat and J. Henry Dick in their own behalf and in behalf of others in a like situation to determine the constitutional validity of the act of Congress of April 26,.1906, c. 1876, 34 Stat. 137, as amended by the act of June 21, 1906, c. 3604, 34 Stat. 325 et seq., and to have the same declared invalid in so far as the same undertook to increase…
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